Oh, joy. It's a stupidity that Prime gave us, & Vmark preserved.
(don't know about UD.)
A line that begins with a "*" is a comment - if it also has a space in
it somwhere after the "*"..
A line that begins with a "*" and has no spaces after the "*" is treated
like a globally catalogued program.
Note, just to make it complicateder, either comment or catlogued
programs can have _leading_ spaces, i.e., spaces before the "*", which
is the first non-space character.
Try typing " *TEST"
and " *TEST HELLO" to see what I mean, George.
The other side of your problem is if you have, say, 10 lines of a
paragraph that you want to comment out do c//* /10 with a space.
not c//*/10
Cuz if you have a one-word line, it will suddenly be interpretted as a
globally catalogued program.
(Got any documentation you want me to write? Didn't think so.)
CDS
> >ED BP TEST
> 001: PRINT @SENTENCE
> 002: PRINT @COMMAND
> 003: STOP
> 004: END
>
> >BASIC BP TEST
> >CATALOG BP *TEST
>
> >*TEST
> *TEST
> *TEST
>
> >*TEST HELLO
> >
>
> (The program doesn't even run..)
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