Ah... another grammar nazi. I suppose you could read it as "will be [Chinese food] and [a bag of lead balls]".
The traditional punishment from the 14th Century is hanging, drawing, and quartering <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered>. Based on the principle of causing the most pain, and making the biggest possible mess. They didn't waste ammo on executions. And to semi-justify this terribly off-topic digression: MVCIN does indeed require the source operand to address the last byte. HLASM does not do this for you. sas On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > Surely he did not mean "anyone who USES [the unnamed successor to M3] will > be take out and shot." > > Is "being take out" anything like "being toast"? > > Also "hung" refers to pictures and also an R-rated meaning. The capital > punishment is to be hanged. http://grammarist.com/usage/hanged-hung/ > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, February 5, 2018 1:53 PM > To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: Re: Fair comparison C vs HLASM > > On 2018-02-05, at 14:29:32, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > > You just mentioned a macro language whose name is the letter m followed > by a digit. > > > No, although that's probably what he intended to do. See: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction > > > _____________________________________ > > From: John McKown > > Sent: Monday, February 5, 2018 12:17 PM > > > >> Anyone who mentions "m4" will be take out and shot. Then hung. Then > quartered. > -- sas
