Anybody use decimals for line numbers?

[Pete]

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GOTO 98.6
END
98.6 PRINT "Hello World!"
SLEEP

Pete

[Jack]

it never occurred to me, just tested it in QB for DOS and it works there also

[Pete]

Yep, leave it to me to stumble on yet another 1/2 ASCII way to code something!

Pete

[PhilOfPerth]

I'm a bit bemused: why shouldn't it work? we can use words as labels, why not decimal numbers?

[bplus]

Too bad we can't use variables, that would get interesting! GOTO 1/3

[SMcNeill]

I remember a couple old games which used this as an organization method. Was it Zork? Wizardry? The way it worked was by setting code sections into various number ranges.

Example:

Line 100.000 - 199.999 was character creation.
Line 200.000 - 299.999 was character level up + skill acquire

And so on.

[bplus]

I'd do that with ole GW Basic, map out programs with line numbers.