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

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Fri Oct 15 13:21:31 EDT 2021


On 2021-10-14, Lee Gleason <lee.gleason at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>    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....
>

Microsoft actually did a more primitive version of the while() loop
above in MASM back about 30 years ago. Don't know if anyone ever used
that and other constructs however. :-)

Simon.

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