NBS Minimal BASIC Test Programs: Version 2, User's Manual, Issue 500, Part 1 - Issue 570, Part 1U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1980 |
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... effect on the result of executing even standard programs . A given program , for instance , might execute without exceptions on one standard implementation , and cause overflow on another , with a notably different numeric result . The ...
... effect on the result of executing even standard programs . A given program , for instance , might execute without exceptions on one standard implementation , and cause overflow on another , with a notably different numeric result . The ...
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... effect of submitting a test program to implementation . ยท an The procedure for error handling in Figure 1 speaks of a processor accepting or rejecting a program . The glossary ( sec . 19 ) of the standard defines accept as " to ...
... effect of submitting a test program to implementation . ยท an The procedure for error handling in Figure 1 speaks of a processor accepting or rejecting a program . The glossary ( sec . 19 ) of the standard defines accept as " to ...
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... the exception report before execution of the program begins . Note that the recovery procedure , substitution of machine infinity for overflow , remains in effect . Underflow , whether for expressions or constants , is only Page 30.
... the exception report before execution of the program begins . Note that the recovery procedure , substitution of machine infinity for overflow , remains in effect . Underflow , whether for expressions or constants , is only Page 30.
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... effect of various constructions which represent either common programming errors ( missing parentheses ) or common enhancements ( ** as the involution operator ) or a blend of the two ( adjacent operators ) . No special interpretation ...
... effect of various constructions which represent either common programming errors ( missing parentheses ) or common enhancements ( ** as the involution operator ) or a blend of the two ( adjacent operators ) . No special interpretation ...
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... effect of the FOR is described in terms of more primitive language features ( IF , GOTO , LET , and REM ) , which are themselves not very vulnerable to misinterpretation . The tests accordingly are quite specific and extensive in the ...
... effect of the FOR is described in terms of more primitive language features ( IF , GOTO , LET , and REM ) , which are themselves not very vulnerable to misinterpretation . The tests accordingly are quite specific and extensive in the ...
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72 characters 8.4 PROGRAM NUMBER algorithm allowed ANSI ANSI standard argument assignment BASIC Test Programs behavior Computer Science context Control Statements correctly DEF statement division by zero documentation endif error measure error programs ERROR REFS error tests EVALUATION OF NUMERIC Exception Handling EXCEPTION REFS exception report exception tests execution FOR-BLOCKS FOR-STATEMENT functional group GOSUB and RETURN GOTO Implementation Conformance implementation-defined features Informative Tests INPUT exception input-reply internal interpretation keyword language standard LINE-NUMBERS machine infinity Minimal BASIC Test non-fatal exceptions NUMERIC CONSTANTS NUMERIC EXPRESSIONS ON-GOTO operations OPTION BASE pass/fail message passes or fails PBASIC PRINT processor FAILS PROGRAM NUMBER EXCEPTION program output programming language programs test pseudorandom QUOTED STRINGS CONTAINING recovery procedure reply requirements RND FUNCTION rules Science and Technology self-checking semantic significand simple software testing source code specified Standard Capabilities standard program syntax test fails TEST PASSED test system UNDERFLOW USER-DEFINED FUNCTION Version ZERO