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In article <1992Sep30.105036.646@hls.com> tima@hls.com writes:
>I get a syntax error. Any suggestions ????
>
>  DEFINT a-z
>
>  CONST Num = 10
>
>  READ a          <===== error is reported at this line
>
>  DATA Num
>
>  END

You can't use a variable in a DATA statement; that's not what DATA
statements are _for_. (!)

If you just change the DATA statement from 'DATA Num' to 'DATA 10' it
will work.  (a will be set to integer 10.)  Or, you could change the
READ statement to 'READ a$'.  But then a$ would be set to the string
"Num", which is probably not what you're after.

Yes, a DATA statement contains a list of constants.  But it has to be
(semantic wrangling happening here...) constants and not "CONSTants",
as in the keyword.  Those CONSTants are actually a special kind of
unchangeable variable.


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