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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-10-14, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> 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.
>

'!=' is the not equals operator from C, not the OR operator.

If anyone actually wanted to do this, the directive would be expanded
to actual Macro-32 code before being compiled. Microsoft did something
similar in MASM about 30 years ago.

>>> 
>>> or:
>>> 
>>> 	.for(R0 = 0; R0 < R1; R0++)
>
> That's just FN fugly.
>

Suspected that would be your response. :-)

>>
>>   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!
>

:-)

On a more serious note, I think the time for enhancing assemblers
with stuff like this has long since passed.

Blame Stephen for putting the idea of OO Macro-32 into my head. :-)

Simon.

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