Coding Styles

[TerryRitchie]

I think you could choose your increments like 5, 10, 15 or 10, 20, 30, etc., but I remember being able to just write my own line numbers. The trick then was to go wide, maybe 10, 20, 30 or wider, 20, 40, 60, etc. so you could insert lines when editing the code. Program routines like REMLINE came along a little later to automatically change your line numbers and the calls to them. I made one of these and posted it several years ago at the QBasic Forum.

Pete

A lot of the old BASIC versions (TRS-80, Apple, etc..) had a command called RENUM that allowed you to renumber an entire program or just a portion of them. I used it quite a bit back in those days to create more space between my line numbers. RENUM was even smart enough to change reference line numbers within the code too, like GOTO, GOSUB, and ON x statements.