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From: tromey@tybalt.caltech.edu (cactus)
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Subject: bugs in applesoft (Was: Re: GS/OS SCSI questions)
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Date: 14 Jan 90 05:54:00 GMT
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In article <12882@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kent Andrew Dickey) writes:
>[I ask anyone to name an actual *BUG* in Applesoft, other than the ONERR
>cannot-have-another-statement-on-the-same-line quirk?  Applesoft is
>amazingly stable for v1.0...in fact, Apple users have come to expect
>that from Apple, so anything less, (ie., other-computerish) seems a let
>down.
>			Kent Dickey
>kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU

i seem to remember that about 1 or 2 years ago someone wrote an article
for nibble magazine where he fixed 13 (12?) bugs in applesoft. i dont have
my issues handy so i cant really look it up (but i could if you really
want).  i do remember that there is a bug in the floating point multiply
routine which causes it to get the last bit wrong under certain
circumstances.  also onerr is very buggy - apple even published a little
piece of machine code to fix up "some onerr goto problems with print and
?out of memory error messages." (quote from basic prog. ref. manual).
also wasnt there some bug with key and onerr?  i seem to remember...
hope this helps/tom
tromey@tybalt.caltech.edu		or is this just stupid?