On 9/26/23 08:21:32, Martin Ward wrote:
On 26/09/2023 14:54, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
It wold be futile to attempt to write a C program with
semantics of a FORTRAN program. It's futile to write
an Assembler program which would work if it were COBOL.
Polyglot would beg to differ: https://ideology.com.au/polyglot/
But it doesn't mention Assembler (or Rexx.)
ANOP would be a good placeholder candidate except for the
requirement for a sequence symbol.
Would it be a good Idea to make the sequence symbol optional?
Would that compromise error reporting?
Would it be a good Idea to allow CNOP 0,1?
Would that compromise error reporting?
Or just define an instream null macro.
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gil
