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Subject: Roo-man & Joey, #6
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 07:53:48 GMT
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    "Roo-man, what is this strange test about after THEN or not after
THEN and what are attributes and why is the sky blue and what are
Labiatae and ..."
    "Slow down youngster," chuckled the prolific producer of
procedures. "With each new token there is an attribute, which is at
least a byte, the first two bits of which have the following meaning
to the parser.

     value in         meaning
      binary
        00          a token not to appear at the start
                    of a statement (can be at the start
                    of an expression)
        01          not to be in a users basic program
        10          legal after a THEN
        11          illegal after a THEN

    "Really Roo-man? Gosh."
    "Yep. And by the way the sky is blue due to selective scattering
of the sun's light and Labiatae is the scientific name for the mint
family."
		--excerpt from the HP-75 Internal Design Specification
		[They just don't write docs like they used to.  -jkh-]