There's nothing unusual about that. Finding someone who took it with equanimity would be unusual. There is no shortage of bad programmers.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Ray Mansell [r...@mansell.org] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 7:19 AM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: *-* I'm sure I'm not the only one to have encountered code where R0, R1, etc were not equated to the values they imply. Not often, but then once is more than enough! Ray On 4/30/2020 04:59, Jonathan Scott wrote (in part): > I do not think it needs explaining > when used any more than it should be necessary to explain any > other common convention, for example that R1 is a name with > value 1 conventionally used to refer to general register 1. > > Jonathan Scott, HLASM > IBM Hursley, UK
