BBC BASIC for Windows
« Possible minor bug & feature request »
Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register. Apr 5th, 2018, 9:52pm
ATTENTION MEMBERS: Conforums will be closing it doors and discontinuing its service on April 15, 2018. Ad-Free has been deactivated. Outstanding Ad-Free credits will be reimbursed to respective payment methods.
If you require a dump of the post on your message board, please come to the support board and request it.
Re: Possible minor bug & feature request
« Reply #1 on: Sep 30th, 2009, 5:40pm »
Quote:
This behaviour is different to *LOWERCASE. Should they behave the same?
I don't think so. The option specifically states Lowercase keywords, and of course the exponent 'e' is not a 'keyword'.
Similarly *LOWERCASE allows you to use lowercase letters (a-f) in hexadecimal constants, but the Option doesn't automatically convert them to capitals.
Really they're doing rather different things. The 'Lowercase keywords' Option is concerned with tokenising keywords, because that's done by the editor. The *LOWERCASE command is (principally) to do with recognising lowercase exponents and hexadecimal constants, because that's an issue for the interpreter.
Quote:
Is it possible to allow use of more than 250 Mb memory. I have several Gb and would like to make use of it.
This was discussed at some length in an earlier thread here:
When you load DLLs, or create large bitmaps, you are making use of your extra memory so it's by no means 'unavailable' to BBC BASIC. You can even allocate the memory to arrays using the Windows API:
Logged
