Also a nice idea. Guess I'll start tallying votes. <grin/> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:13 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why not adapt the HLASM macro language subSTRING notation? > > Something like > > <register designation>(<zero-origin offset>,<bit count>|*) > > E.g., > > R12(0,32) ==> R03(32,*) > R03(32,*) ==> R12(0,32) > > R00(32,32) ==> R13(0,32) > R05(8,8) ==> R12(0,8) > > This sort of thing would also be immediately intelligible to someone > familiar with either COBOL's "reference modification" or the PL/I and > PL/I dialects substr BIF. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown
