Jon Perryman wrote: <begin extract> Attribute K' should have been L'. Also note that macro statements can be used outside a macro's (no MACRO / MEND needed). In addition, macro statements are processed different than instructions. In this case, the L' should be on the MVC instruction (MVC 0(L'&txt,R4),&TXT) because L' on macro statements require the variable be defined prior to the SETA statement. When used on an instruction, the variable can be anywhere in your in your code </end extract>
and I am not sure quite what to make of it. Much of it is otiose, and some of it is wrong. In |&text setc 'Tertium non datur' --initialize &text |&textk seta k'&text --get its character count the k' is correct, and I used it advisedly. (In general, k'<whatever> and l'<whatever> are not interchangeable. When a [crude] character count is sought k' shopuld be used.) In general the behavior of conditional-assembly statements is much the same inside and and outside macro definitions. There are some obvious differences, reflective chiefly of scope; but they are neither very important nor very interesting. That they are processed differently from each other and from, say, machine instructions and assembler instructions is of course correct. That is the point. If they were not, they too would be otiose. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
