Re: [Kidbasic-devel] File access?

[Ian L. <dr...@gm...>]

Actually, I haven't given it much thought, but you're right, it would
be good to have that.

We could have an FOPEN, FREAD, and FWRITE command.  I'm just unsure of
whether they should work at the byte or character level.

What I usually do is write an example program or tutorial first, and
then code the commands.  It helps to focus on what is actually
necessary to teach kids.

Traditionally BASIC used READ and DATA statements for data input, but
personally I was never crazy about that approach, most importantly
because I think data should be a separate entity from the program that
reads/alters it.

The approach that LISP takes for file input is nice.  You can use the
lisp read command on an open file to read a token, or read-line to
read a line.  There's also read-char and read-byte.  This might be the
best way to handle it, so kids can have a text file of data separated
by white space and just read each token in one at a time.

-Ian




On 11/16/06, Ferry Hendrikx <fer...@gm...> wrote:
> Has anyone given any thought to file access? It would be useful to be
> able to open, read and write text files...
>
> Cheers
>
> /Ferry
>
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