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From: Bob Eager
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:59

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On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:42:57 -0600, Charles Richmond wrote:

> On 2/28/2018 6:33 AM, 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"
>> 
>> 
> Some early cross assemblers for the 8-bit micros needed the label
> terminated with a colon (:).

Following a decade-old (at least) pattern set by DEC (and others).



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