Interesting.

I hope i never see code like this.  ;-)

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:07 PM, John Ehrman <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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