Was Self-modifying-code possible just using BASIC ? - On commonly affordable home-computers between - Anytime -1984 - Code that changes its own instructions while it is executing - Just using BASIC - Not using peek or poke or assembly language ( Now I know peek and poke are part of the BASIC language, but does not change my question ) Were there any machines on which the following theoretical / generic example programs might work - 10 Let Line 20 = Print "word" 20 Print "nothing" Or just - 10 Let Line 10 = Print "word" Or the following theoretical / generic example program - 10 Print "10 Print "word"" + [ A special Carriage-return function / command that makes the computer accept this as the new 'Line 10' ] - In the example above, I'm wondering if you print the new 'Line 10' to the screen, whether there was any special Carriage-return function / command that made the computer accept this as the new 'Line 10', obviously very unlikely there would have been. I would probably have to ask a separate question to ask - - How was Self-modifying-code used to save space - Were there any other 'interesting' uses for Self-modifying-code that would have been possible on the machines specified in this question - Also, I wonder if you could 'somehow' set a Data-file as the new current program ( surely not via just BASIC, without peek or poke or assembly ), or even how many programs( surely only one ) or data-files could be held at one time.