Hola John,
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, John Phipps wrote:
> cable. I found out somehow, that if you included the graphic symbol '+' (not
> '+' as in plus or minus, but a larger character - chr$(217) or chr$(219), I
> forget which), in a REM statement, the PET would stop printing as soon as it
> reached this, and 'syntax error' would be displayed on the screen. To carry
> on printing, you had to list from the next line down. Never understood why
> this should be. Anyone else come across it?
I would guess it is related to the REM shift-L effect in BASIC 2.0. For
what it's worth, there's an explanation of this effect in C=Hacking #17.
-S
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