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- From: tcamp@acpub.duke.edu (Ted A. Campbell)
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- Subject: PARallel ACTions in BASIC
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:03:30 GMT
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- An ANSI Solution to My Multitasking BASIC Query
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- Thanks for your responses to my query about Multitasking BASIC. I
- was very surprised to learn when my copy of the Full ANSI BASIC
- standard arrived that this possibility was more or less foreseen
- in the ANSI specification. Their solution is that BASIC code
- can be subdivided into code segments delimited as follows:
-
- PARACT
- ...
- END PARACT
-
- PARACT
- ...
- END PARACT
-
- Each code segment so delimited is run as a "PARallel ACTion". This
- will be implemented as an option in bwBASIC 2.xx, but it is a fairly
- costly one in terms of code size, basically increasing all code by
- about 33% and slowing down processing. Several persons pointed out
- that this would probably not be worth it, especially in an interpreted
- language. So it can be commented out at bwBASIC compilation time.
-
- Has anyone ever seen a BASIC that implements this PARACT feature?
-
-
- Ted A. Campbell
- email: tcamp@acpub.duke.edu
-