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From: Bob Eager
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:40

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 07:33:19 -0500, J. Clarke wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 07:20:40 +0000, Andrew Swallow
> <am.sw...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 26/02/2018 06:43, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2018-02-26, Dan Espen wrote:
>>{snip}
>>
>>
>>>> Putting a comment on every line makes it simpler to read the whole
>>>> program as comments.  With highlighting this is an easy way to
>>>> quickly absorb a module.
>>>>
>>>> Of course the comments may not be 100% right.
>>>>
>>>> In the above case, the code still needs a comment but it should be
>>>> something like:
>>>>
>>>> x=5;		# Max supported fingers
>>> 
>>> max_supported_fingers=5;  # Nothing more to say
>>> 
>>> /Jorgen
>>> 
>>> 
>>Nice to have an assembler that supports long variable names.
> 
> Never saw an assembler that recognized "=" or used the semicolon.  In
> the assemblers I've used it's more like "ADDI		X,5"

Lots of them. But usually for assembly-time constants.

max_fingers=5

   mov ax,max_fingers




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