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- Temporary Variables
-
- Temporary variables are created and named via assignment statements in
- the source code; the name appearing on the left side of the equal sign
- is given to the file. For example,
-
- acceleration = (force1 + force2)/mass;
-
- Temporary variables should not be given the same name as an
- existing file, otherwise their contents will be replaced with the values
- calculated for the expression on the right side of the equals sign, and
- then deleted when the algorithm is done.
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- This name must be unique within the current source code. Variable
- names must start with a letter and may be of any length; however, only
- the first sixteen characters are significant to DAN and must therefore
- not match the first sixteen characters of any other variable name. Also,
- only the first eight characters preceding a "." are significant to DOS.
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- Care must be taken to use variable names that are also legal DOS file
- names. Characters in the name may be ".", any letter, or any digit.
- The "." character (if used) should only appear once and can only be
- followed by 0 to 3 characters. Upper or lower case may be used but
- does not count when distinguishing names; AB,aB,Ab, and ab are all
- considered to be the same name.
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