I just wrote the quotation marks in the way I did because I don't know how they are escaped in MESS (\" vs. "" vs """ etc.)
Let me make a working example: "10 print 244\n20 goto 10"
Also, who says that there is not a BASIC dialect out there that accepts both " and ' for PRINT commands?? I didn't specify for which machine my example is :-P
That's not the point I was trying to make. Which was this:
Look again at your example above in post #96208, this wouldn't work with what you describe. You have lots of things like \n160 in there which would, according to your "specification", be interpreted as 160 second delay instead of line number 160 after a newline.
Fact is you cannot re-purpose escape sequences the way you describe. You could, however, invent a new escape sequence for "delay". Like \d.
