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It's freaking donkey.bas
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ending doublequotes missing #1

Closed ronmurphy closed 8 years ago

ronmurphy commented 8 years ago

in lines 92,93,94 and 103.

oznogon commented 8 years ago

They're not present in the source.

screen shot 2016-07-18 at 11 25 25 am

Via http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pcx86/machine/5150/cga/64kb/donkey/

ronmurphy commented 8 years ago

odd, ok.

OvermindDL1 commented 8 years ago

In old BASIC trailing double quotes were optional if the last thing on the line (a newline acts like a closing double quote if there was an open string).

ronmurphy commented 8 years ago

ah ok. i always closed mine because i read it in a book that it should be done, good practice i guess.