2011/3/8 Martin Trübner <[email protected]>: > Tony et al, > >>> In many cases it makes more sense to use a macro-time variable > ("variable symbol") for this sort of thing: > > and the sample: > >>> &CODE SETC 'ABCDE' > CLC MYSTRING,=C'&CODE' > > You can use your sample without macros with newer (as in 27 years) assemblers.
I was not suggesting that a macro is needed to use SETC et al; I used the term "macro-time" to speak of SET symbols and all their baggage, in contrast to the Ordinary symbols that are defined by, among other things, EQU. Perhaps "macro-time" has lost the strength of its meaning since the days of the F assembler and its many-pass friends. Maybe a contest is called for to come up with a general term for such usage. Quite probably there is a good term that I'm missing. I could have used "open code conditional assembly", but there's nothing conditional about what I suggested. Tony H.
