For what it's worth, the Arev knowledgebase has a great article on optimising BASIC code (for speed!), which mentions that the <-1> concept is the slowest structure. Admittedly we have processors that thrash these things out in milliseconds today, but for the purist... The A = A : newvalue : @fm process is (to quote Andrew McCauley) "20-30 times faster"
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