Tony Harminc wrote
| That extended continuation syntax is valid only for macro invocations.
which is not quite right. It is a macro-language/conditional-assembly facility
that may be used in any macro-language construct that may appear in open code.
In particular, it may appear in set-symbol assignment statements, as in
putative column 72=======================>|
|&whatever setc 'x''00'''.','.'x''01'''.','
*
| .'x''02'''.',''x''03'''.','
*
| .'x''04'''
| DC &whatever
the construction of which can be simplified and made more perspicuous using the
DOUBLE bif (which was provided for use in constructing MNOTE text but has other
uses like this one too.
John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
