I just tried making an arbitrarily long line in hidden line space. ..... It works.
You can go past the 256 character limit. Seems like you must still terminate the BA correctly. Wow. On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 12:09 PM, Stephen Adolph <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the linker routine ends at 65529. Can't say for sure, but I got > the sense that if I can have a line number of 50 following 65531, and > further if there is also a line 50 in the visible basic program, and they > don't collide, then.... the linker must ignore what it finds below 65529. > > > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 12:07 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 9:01 AM Stephen Adolph <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> no, I think you still need line numbers, but that is an interesting >>> thing to check. it amounts to running a line longer than 256 bytes. >>> >>> >> Yeah I was wondering the same thing. You commented above about assigning >> a string so you could find a ML blob following the string line at a >> calculatable offset. That ML blob might have no restrictions whatsoever! >> Well unless you READ through or execute through it. So maybe tricky. >> >> And given that tokenized BASIC programs are a linked list structure, if a >> blob of data existed between lines, would that affect anything? >> >> — John. >> > >
