On Sat, 24 Jul 1999 05:01:31 +0200, Maarten ter Huurne wrote:

>>  I don't get the idea... How to tokenize ASM? Get an hex editor and you do
>>not even need to assembly it!
>Tokenizing is the first step of compilation. But if you have an integrated
>editor + compiler, it's possible to store the source in tokenized
>representation instead of ASCII. There are two advantages:
>1. it takes less space
>2. it takes less time to compile
>And tokenizing one line at a time during editing is only a very small
>overhead. It may be slow to load ASCII files though, that would require a
>lot of tokenizing.

  Oh, now I got the idea... The editor would work like the MSX Basic editor,
right? This would be nice.

[]'s Daniel Caetano



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