On 7/19/24 08:56, Tony Thigpen wrote:
... elsewhere RO EQU SEEKO+7,1I finally figured out what was happening when I copied the code from the PC editor I was using to view the shareware code to a test program in xedit so I could see what it was actually doing. The character after the "R" was the letter 'OH', not a 'zero', but the pc editor does not display a significantly different item for zero and the letter 'O'. .
About a half-century ago, an article in one of the IT pulps advocated that F0RTRAN (the only computer language known at the time) make '0' and 'O' interchangeable. I don't recall that the consequences were sufficiently considered. -- gil
