Small snippet to make the AY scream a bit

[programandala.net]

And just like that I find out about a feature of the compiler I didn't know about. *facepalm* I had no idea there was an AND/OR version of OVER.

*EDITS THE WIKI* There. Now it's documented. I was talking about the compiler over on WOS, and the main complaint was lack of documentation. You've put lots of clever things like this in, that we only seem to find out by accident!

I feel exactly the same! The lack of ZX Basic documentation is the main reason I'm seriously considering the use of the good old Beta Basic 4.0 to write my current project... Beta Basic has excellent manuals where everything is explained with full detail and lot of examples.

It's a pleasure to code in ZX Basic, with a modern editor, but many times it's very frustating: I feel I'm blind and lost, trying to find out many issues by trial and error, besides the most simple and evident features.

I can contribute to the ZX Basic documentation, but I cannot write down the hidden features or commands nobody knows

I suggest to stop coding for a while and seriously arrange, tidy, complete and update the documentation. That would make it much easier to use ZX Basic: many people would be encouraged to try it, and that would lead to faster debugging and development. Then the documentation should be updated for every single change in the code (command line options, syntax, commands...)

Without a complete and updated documentation, only the Spectrum "zealots" like me dare to try ZX Basic.