On 25 October 2013 17:59, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rob's macro FOOBAR is easy to improve, as in
>

I don't disagree yet, but what's the improvement?  It's a lot more code
(though still less than what I inherited) and I agree the mnote is more
verbose. But does it serve a purpose? Maybe I've tried too much C that I
rarely feel helped by the compiler messages but instead go look at the
source and figure out where I screwed up. With HLASM the messages rarely
describe my mistake, at best I can see why he thought that way... I should
likely do better than an mnote with "that's wrong, go look again" but to
double the amount of code (and likely mistakes) just for eye candy isn't my
first choice.

Could I redesign the FOOBAR macro, I would have opted for a scheme that
enforces the semantics better, like
  FOOBAR B,17

Rob

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