Hah cool! That is how I more or less discovered 'structured programming'. I had already made three tries at that and failed miserably. Then 'functions' came along and suddenly I was able to write code in the 1000's of lines and not get lost. (Before then it was all GOSUB 3300 etc.)
The BBC Micro (the machine I was working on at the time) had a version of Basic that allowed for procedures (something that doesn't return a value) and functions to be defined with a name attached. It's incredible if you think about it from a present day perspective that in that sense the original BASIC was even worse than assembler, which at least allowed you to attach a label to an address.
The BBC Micro (the machine I was working on at the time) had a version of Basic that allowed for procedures (something that doesn't return a value) and functions to be defined with a name attached. It's incredible if you think about it from a present day perspective that in that sense the original BASIC was even worse than assembler, which at least allowed you to attach a label to an address.