[Info-vax] OO version of Macro-32, was: Re: CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Lee Gleason]

On 10/14/2021 1:49 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-10-13, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> Not that I'd expect to ever meet Macroo32. ?
>>
> 
> :-)
> 
> What would an object orientated version of Macro-32 even look like ? :-)
> 
> Anyone want to have a guess at possible syntax options ? :-)
> 
> BTW, you could always add some structured language constructs to
> the Macro-32 compiler that could get translated into normal
> Macro-32 code before compiling it:
> 
> 	.while(R0 != 0)
> 		{
> 		[Normal Macro-32 code]
> 		}
> 
> or:
> 
> 	.if(R0 & 1)
> 		{
> 		[Normal Macro-32 code]
> 		}
> 	.else
> 		{
> 		[Normal Macro-32 code]
> 		}
> 
> or:
> 
> 	.for(R0 = 0; R0 < R1; R0++)
> 		{
> 		[Normal Macro-32 code]
> 		}
> 
> :-)
> 
> Simon.
> 

   This would be an abomination.

   Way way way back in the day, this sort of thing gained some 
popularity  in the  PDP11 MACRO-11 world. It was implemented by a set of 
macros called SMACIT, that enabled this sort of thing. I didn't like it 
then either....

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