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From: throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Henry Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: bugs in applesoft (Was: Re: GS/OS SCSI questions)
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Date: 14 Jan 90 21:22:42 GMT
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In article <13257@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tromey@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (cactus) writes:
n 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).
<<<<o 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?

Seems to me that Applesoft returns an incorrect '?RETURN WITHOUT GOSUB'
error when you set an onerr trap from within a subroutine and then 
return.

Henry


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