As you may remember, I have written a lot of these SETAF and SETCF functions, some of them in PL/I, which does complex arithmetic [incidental to table generation] easily.
What I had in mind was writing functions that do things for which no HLASM bif is supplied but for which (I think) one should be available. MOD is an obvious example. I can, often do, write it out in conditional-assembly statements. I would like to be able to do this just once and then be able to invoke it as a function. (I know of course that I can write an ARITHMOD macro definition. I indeed have one, but I cannot invoke it as a function, which would be much more perspicuous.) John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
