[Info-vax] $sndopr() and dsc64$descriptor

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/12/2021 3:51 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 3/12/2021 10:09 AM, John Reagan wrote:
>> For those of you keeping score at home, I checked the sources 
>> (Macro-32) and it seems to only deal with 32-bit descriptors.  Since 
>> the $SND* services use descriptors to describe non-strings, the 
>> internal consumers would also need to handle 64-bit addresses and/or 
>> lengths > 64K.  I guess it is the 64-bit addresses that is the "most 
>> common" request (ie, this thread).   I think we can deliver this 
>> change at the same time we ship object-oriented BASIC.
> 
> And re-written in Basic, right John?
> 
> :-)

And don't mock OO basic.

I think OOification of Basic and Pascal would make a lot more sense
than Cobol and Fortran.

Arne