The idea back then was that you could easily add code everywhere in your program by using the appropriate line number. That’s why everybody uses line numbers 10, 20, 30.. so there is room left: 10 PRINT “HOME” 20 PRINT “SWEET” 30 GOTO 10 25 PRINT “HOME” On the first interfaces BASIC was available for, … Read more
slices to the rescue 🙂 def left(s, amount): return s[:amount] def right(s, amount): return s[-amount:] def mid(s, offset, amount): return s[offset:offset+amount]
Dim originally (in BASIC) stood for Dimension, as it was used to define the dimensions of an array. (The original implementation of BASIC was Dartmouth BASIC, which descended from FORTRAN, where DIMENSION is spelled out.) Nowadays, Dim is used to define any variable, not just arrays, so its meaning is not intuitive anymore.