Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | Once upon a time,
> | Basic enthusiasts would have used the word "tokenized" to describe .pyc
> files.
>
> Perhaps, but they would, I think, have been wrong. Tokenized Basic to the
> best of my knowledge, is a reversibly compressed version of the source
> file. The 'while' keyword, is there is one, is replaced by a number, but
> no parsing is done.
Almost reversibly. The giveaway was when you listed your BASIC
program and all the keywords came out upper-case, regardless of what
case you'd typed them in.
Mel.
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