Appendix A discusses the differences with
Microsoft BASIC. Appendix B describes all reserved symbols.
Appendix C lists the error messages in use.
-.sp
-Additional information about EM and the Amsterdam Compiler Kit
-can be obtained from .... and found in ......
.SH
-SyNTAX NOTATION
+SYNTAX NOTATION
.LP
The conventions for syntax presentation are as follows:
.IP CAPS 10
The BASIC-EM compiler is designed for a UNIX based environment.
It accepts a text file with your BASIC program (suffix .b) and generates
an executable file, called a.out.
-.LP
-Should we call the preprocessor first?
.NH 2
LINE FORMAT
.LP
Defines a string variable.
.LP
NOTE: Two variables with the same name but different type is
-considered illegal (DONE?).
+considered illegal.
.LP
Beside single valued variables, values may be grouped
into tables or arrays.
MID$(<string expr1>,n[,m])=<string expr2>
.PU
To replace a portion of a string with another string value.
-The characters of <string expr> replaces characters in <string expr1>
+The characters of <string expr2> replaces characters in <string expr1>
starting at position n. If m is present, at most m characters are copied,
otherwise all characters are copied.
However, the string obtained never exceeds the length of string expr1.