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BASIC Reserved Words
 
The words in the following list are reserved in BASIC. They may not be used
as labels or as names for variables or procedures. Reserved words include
keywords (functions, statements and operators) and certain other words that
are recognized by the interpreter.
 
       ABS              DIM               LOF             SADD
       ACCESS           DIR$              LOG             SAVEPOINT
       ALIAS            DO                LONG            SCREEN
       ALL              DOUBLE            LOOP            SEEK
       AND              DRAW              LPOS            SEEKEQ
       ANY                                LPRINT          SEEKGE
       APPEND           ELSE              LSET            SEEKGT
       AS               ELSEIF            LTRIM$          SEG
       ASC              END                               SELECT
       ATN              ENDIF             MID$            SETINDEX
                        ENVIRON           MKC$            SETMEM
       BASE             ENVIRON$          MKD$            SGN
       BEEP             EOF               MKDIR           SHARED
       BEGINTRANS       EQV               MKDMBF$         SHELL
       BINARY           ERASE             MKI$            SIGNAL
       BLOAD            ERDEV             MKL$            SIN
       BOF              ERDEV$            MKS$            SINGLE
       BSAVE            ERL               MKSMBF$         SLEEP
       BYVAL            ERR               MOD             SOUND
                        ERROR             MOVEFIRST       SPACE$
       CALL             EVENT             MOVELAST        SPC
       CALLS            EXIT              MOVENEXT        SQR
       CASE             EXP               MOVEPREVIOUS    SSEG
       CCUR                                               SSEGADD
       CDBL             FIELD             NAME            STACK
       CDECL            FILEATTR          NEXT            STATIC
       CHAIN            FILES             NOT             STEP
       CHECKPOINT       FIX                               STICK
       CHDIR            FOR               OCT$            STOP
       CHDRIVE          FRE               OFF             STR$
       CHR$             FREEFILE          ON              STRIG
       CINT             FUNCTION          OPEN            STRING
       CIRCLE                             OPTION          STRING$
       CLEAR            GET               OR              SUB
       CLNG             GETINDEX$         OUT             SWAP
       CLOSE            GO                OUTPUT          SYSTEM
       CLS              GOSUB
       COLOR            GOTO              PAINT           TAB
       COM                                PALETTE         TAN
       COMMAND$         HEX$              PCOPY           THEN
       COMMITTRANS                        PEEK            TIME$
       COMMON           IF                PEN             TIMER
       CONST            IMP               PLAY            TO
       COS              INKEY$            PMAP            TROFF
       CREATEINDEX      INP               POINT           TRON
       CSNG             INPUT             POKE            TYPE
       CSRLIN           INPUT$            POS
       CURDIR$          INSERT            PRESET          UBOUND
       CURRENCY         INSTR             PRINT           UCASE$
       CVC              INT               PSET            UEVENT
       CVD              INTEGER           PUT             UNLOCK
       CVDMBF           IOCTL                             UNTIL
       CVI              IOCTL$            RANDOM          UPDATE
       CVL              IS                RANDOMIZE       USING
       CVS              ISAM              READ
       CVSMBF                             REDIM           VAL
                        KEY               REM             VARPTR
       DATA             KILL              RESET           VARPTR$
       DATE$                              RESTORE         VARSEG
       DECLARE          LBOUND            RESUME          VIEW
       DEF              LCASE$            RETRIEVE
       DEFCUR           LEFT$             RETURN          WAIT
       DEFDBL           LEN               RIGHT$          WEND
       DEFINT           LET               RMDIR           WHILE
       DEFLNG           LINE              RND             WIDTH
       DEFSNG           LIST              ROLLBACK        WINDOW
       DEFSTR           LOC               RSET            WRITE
       DELETE           LOCAL             RTRIM$
       DELETEINDEX      LOCATE            RUN             XOR
       DELETETABLE      LOCK