Much sooner than I had expected, Steve Hobson and I have in fact found something to agree about.
Hexadecimal representations can sometimes be more perspicuous than decimal ones, and vice versa. Thus | N Rx,X'00FFFFFF' is certainly more perspicuous than | N Rx,F'16777215' albeit marginally so for the experienced. In other cases it is not obvious to me that the choice matters much: |&whatever seta BYTE(x'40') and |&whatever seta BYTE(+64) seem to me to be interchangeable. An assembly-language programmer for whom 4 x 16 = 64 is not immediate should find other work. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
