Steve Smith asked for the answer to my quiz question of March 23:

> While we're having fun: under what circumstances is the character 
sequence
>
>         (4)(3)(2)(1)
>
> legal as part of a machine instruction operand, not part of a quoted
> string, not part of a macro operand, and not part of a SETC statement?

And no, it's not an "April-Fool" question. 
Here's the answer:
        USING  *,12
&V(4)   SETC   'L'
        LA     0,=A&V(4)(3)(2)(1)
        END

Try assembling it!  (And no, it wasn't my idea originally.)

Regards... John 

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