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by Hackbraten 987 days ago
Doesn’t BASIC tokenize those abbreviations to the exact same in-memory bytes like the full keywords?
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eesmith 987 days ago
Yes. Mentioned in the link as well: "As a program is typed into the BASIC interpreter, it's tokenised: any keywords in the line get replaced by token values before being stored in memory. We can see in this line that SAVE has been replaced by command token $94".
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dep_b 987 days ago
Yes it does but the amount of bytes the author speaks about regards the amount of characters used for storing the program. That's why he uses the : and removes the spaces.
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larschdk 987 days ago
The stored version also uses token code points (single bytes >127), not literal tokens.
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