>Antti, if you are going to produce a BASIC compiler, I suggest that you
>look at using BS 2 syntax, not BS1. In particular, the BS-2 way of
>defining/using variables is much better. And it would be nice to have
>the BS2 features ... in particular, SHIFTIN/SHIFTOUT.

Actually, why don't you use uSoft's GWBASIC with some PIC Specific
extensions?  This would mean that you are creating something a bit more
standard and recognizable by people other than STAMP users.  (Although this
may be the point of your compiler.)

Good Luck!

myke
>
>I'd be happy to help you beat the devil out of the beast, if you do a
>BS-2 version. I have the Micro Engineering Labs Picbasic (BS-1) and it
>works well, but a freeware or shareware BS-2 would be a lot better.
>
>Larry
>
>>----------
>>From:  Antti Lukats[SMTP:antti@SISTUDIO.COM]
>>Sent:  Monday, December 02, 1996 5:07 AM
>>To:    Multiple recipients of list PICLIST
>>Subject:       Christmas lights with PIC Basic anyone?
>>
>>(snip)
>>In the meantime I am making experiments with our tiny basic compiler
>>which is today very very alfa, but already produces some useable code.
>>
>>I am wondering if there is anyone around who would be interested to
>>test it in this early stage?
>>
>>currently supported features are
>>
>>Basic Stamp I syntax
>>byte vars
>>for next
>>goto gosub
>>+ - and or xor /2
>>pause and some more tokens,
>>eeprom, read/write
>>
>>
>
>

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