On 2020-06-01, at 15:07:33, Charles Mills wrote:
> 
> I use 0H if it is the beginning of a section of code and there might be an 
> odd-length DC in front of it. But I use * when I am jumping around one 
> instruction. 
> 
> Revealing my age, I got in the habit of using EQU rather than labeled machine 
> instructions because if you are using punched cards and need to insert a new 
> instruction right after the label, you only have to punch one card if you 
> used EQU, but two if you put the label on a machine instruction.
>  
Same with CONTINUE in FORTRAN programs.  And someone once told me
that GOTO continue-ending-DO skips the DO rather than branching
into it.  But someone may have been mistaken, or thiking wishfully.

-- gil

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