Good point Bart.

First, I was only willing to pay to make something that does not work for me, work. And I feel I would not have any other choice otherwise.. Hummm.. That sounds fishy.. And if they are happy with it incomplete like that, it is not up to me. I know I would be happy, Bart would too, and other that own it, and future PIC (not STAMP) people too. Wonder how many gave up do to that little confussion for a non-programmer tring to learn.. Imagine they learn and they by PBP since they have not given up..

Funny, most people that would say it is not a problem also bought PBP. And they are not dealing with it. I do not need PBP, I need IF ELSE ENDIF, not worth $150 more for what should be in BASIC of any kind, or C or PASCAL, or any other compiler. Anyway, they must have needed it too. Or maybe the people doing the ELSE1 and ENDIF1 did not buy PBP and really writing code like that to date. They can do that if they like, but I feel that is extra work for me. No offense to the people that still are, that was not meant to be mean. I just will believe you bought PBP or can really do code that way. And that is fine if you are comfortable with it, it is just not for me. I just do not want to sit and track the count on the else and endif labels. I want clean code weather standard, medium, pro, super advanced.

Why would I buy the PBC to make things a pain and not structured? If I want a pain, I can get C for free (and it has IF ELSE ENDIF).. You like C use C, you like BASIC, use BASIC. I do not like C, I like BASIC. This to me is a broken BASIC with this one issue. What is so hard to see I need no more than PBC to do my work, but I need a proper IF ELSE ENDIF like all the other compilers I have used for the last 15+ years. Not being mean, tring to make a point.
When the line numbers left, the ELSE ENDIF was there and made BASIC a real language. Lack of PortA etc. Not a problem, I have symbol to add them, I can "symbol PortA = 5". So that I can work with, because it is available in the PBC. But I can not add ELSE ENDIF. I have to reverse my logical thinking (at least what I call logical in my head).

And to say work around. Work around what, the fact it is incomplete? That is what you are saying. I need a structured language.

Final note. I am not looking to argue, just tring to get a complete program for me and others. I mean this all in the nicest way.. We really should be mailing MEL I guess. It does no good here as proven.