Re: Forbidden variables in BASIC

Allen Huffman via Coco <[email protected]> Fri, 15 May 2026 20:40:28 -0500
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> On May 15, 2026, at 8:24=E2=80=AFPM, Alex Evans via Coco =
<[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> of course if you use longer variable names you start collating with =
even more tokens.

Alex, do you avoid making forbidden variable names?

Does everyone here know about Alex=E2=80=99s tools? Just using his =
compacting method speeds up BASIC =E2=80=94 here is a side-by-side =
video:

Sadly, only shared it to Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18cX1F75Fi/



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