Rather than using up memory on lengthy error messages, 1K BASIC displays the address (in decimal) after the call instruction that called the error subroutine. This means that error codes change during development, but has the advantage that you can distinguish one kind of error from another. For example at the time of writing this ‘E706’ means an unrecognised token was encountered during parsing.
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