Date   : Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:54:14 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Basic6809 1.00

Greg Cook wrote:
> I prefer the existing way; Edgar Dijkstra hand-wrote a charming paper in
> 1982 championing semi-inclusive ranges in this style, but Acorn had been
> doing it this way since the System 1.
 
It's so much more logical and intuitive
  for *SAVE pic 3000+5000
  and *SAVE pic 3000 8000
to mean the same thing.
 
Every start/end usage I can think of uses the specification that
end=start+length, not end=start+length-1.
 
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