to those reely, reely familiar with PBASIC

davejames

Is there any advantage (any at all) in combining PBASIC statements on the same line versus separating them on individual lines?

<statement1> : <statement2> : <statement3>

...versus...

<statement1>
<statement2>
<statement3>

Thanks much.

Sapphire

Only for readability. Tokenization is the same either way.

Hal Albach

I tried this out on a simple demo program that had three statements in a for...next loop. Looking at the EEPROM map nothing changed, all the tokens remained the same and the map ended at the same location. I kind of figured that was going to happen but it's always good to see your hunches pan out. About the only benefit to packing multiple statements on one line would be some paper saved if you are the type that likes to print everything out and don't mind a certain amount of confusion. It also makes commenting your source very difficult since only the last statement in a line can have a comment.
I would not want to debug someone else's code if they filled every line with multiple statements. Lots of white space makes for easier reading and debugging.

davejames

Sapphire & Hal,

Thanks guys, I kinda figured as much. But always hoping for anything that would bring a bit more performance.

JonnyMac

There's a popular line from Star Wars that's appropriate: "It's a trap!!!"

The tokens will be the same, hence you should always go for readability -- make your listings easy on humans.