24 Jun
2021
24 Jun
'21
2:02 a.m.
On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 20:48 -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
In other words, you can assemble some code, execute
it, then go back
to assembling the rest of the source text. Cute. Suppose you want
to do something too hard for macros; just assemble its input data,
followed by some code to convert that into the form you want, then go
back to assembling more code.
I proposed this for Fortran about twenty years ago, and for what became
Ada when it was just DoD\1 requirements in about 1976.