In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/30/2006
at 04:30 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>45 years ago an IBM assembler provided a HED pseudo-op which
>implicitly qualified symbols in a range of statements.
That sounds like FAP, which appended a character to the names rather
than providing a unique namespace as QUAL did in IBMAP.
>This was a variant of name scoping; I don't know whether it would
>have helped in this case.
IMHO a full fledged QUAL would have been extremely useful, whether or
not it helped in this specific case.
>Despite the "dozens" of errors, do you need to do anything more than
>delete the single definition in your macro?
Not if he doesn't need to assemble using the old maclib, which he says
isn't an issue for him. Someone distributing the code to outsiders
might have to do more.
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