> <HISTORICAL_COMMENT>
> Which is dumb, because since in AppleSoft BASIC the highest line number is
> 63999 (why?), they could have easily used a reserved values to represent a
> GOTO to a variable. Instead, they stored the line number as ASCII, which
> is ultimately lame because a) it takes up more space, b) it requires more
> time to parse and process during runtime and c) is wholly inefficient.
> </HISTORICAL_COMMENT>
A lot of old Microsoft BASICs do it this way, though. Commodore BASIC has
the same thing (and I agree, it's totally stupid).
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