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

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In article <Yk2aJ.206815$Kv2.105764 at fx47.iad>, Lee Gleason <lee.gleason at comcast.net> writes:
>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)

How does a directive see and active value in R0 and oring it with 0 does
nothing.


>> 		{
>> 		[Normal Macro-32 code]
>> 		}
>> 
>> or:
>> 
>> 	.if(R0 & 1)

Again, how does a directive ...


>> 		{
>> 		[Normal Macro-32 code]
>> 		}
>> 	.else
>> 		{
>> 		[Normal Macro-32 code]
>> 		}
>> 
>> or:
>> 
>> 	.for(R0 = 0; R0 < R1; R0++)

That's just FN fugly.


>> 		{
>> 		[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....

Leave Macro alone!

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