In a recent note, Charles Mills said: > Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:39:22 -0800 > > You could do some of that with labeled USINGs. > But only some. It requires the programmer to explicitly qualify each symbol use
I recall vaguely that the 709 (et. al.) assembler, FAP, had an operation called HED that did something like that. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Gerhard Postpischil > Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 5:35 PM > > If John E. is lurking, there is one feature I'd really love to > see - qualifiers. Suppose you wish to combine two programs that > have duplicate variables - prefix each code section with a > qualifying name, and the assembler correctly resolves the local > references. In a way this was a precursor to the way unexposed -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
