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matherp
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Posted: 07:33am 06 Jun 2025      

  Quote  What do you think about the CHAIN command not running the normal code in the library.

This discussion stems from, IMHO, incorrect use of the library. It should be a repository of subroutines and functions that are , in effect extending the language. Again, IMHO, it should never contain executable main program code and definitely should not be declaring global variables without ON SKIP protection.
Disabling the library would mean that anything in the library would be inaccessible in the chained program. FLASH CHAIN is very different as it runs a pre-tokenised image. CHAIN loads from source and has to tokenise which means it rebuilds the subroutine tables.
In any event, unless any critical bugs are found in the next few days, the release is completely closed and I have already sent the binaries to Geoff ready for release.