SBASIC bug?

[pjw]

Anyone know whats going on here?

SBASIC only: EXecute the following program:

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100 ch = FOPEN("con"): CLS#ch
110 test ch, 1
120 PAUSE#ch
130 CLOSE#ch
140 :
150 DEFine PROCedure test(ch, a)
160 PRINT#ch; a
180 END DEFine test

Result in this case:

At line 150:4 DEFines may not be within other clauses

However there are various error conditions depending on how the program
is constructed. In the worst case it just hangs and must be RJOBed.

What seems to get the interpreter's knickers in a twist is a parameter
being referenced using the same name as the parameter, 'ch' in this case.
This is supposed to be perfectly "legal". I dont know when this behaviour
started but Ive noticed it for a while.

[pjw]

PS: I see the long-line code issue has still not been resolved.
Would it help if I threw a tantrum?

[dilwyn]

Presumably to do with the proc parameter ch being replaced by a global ch? Don't know - I've run into this sort of thing myself before and simply written it differently to work around it before I waste too much time looking into it.