> What's wrong with a comment? Real programmers know to read the code first and the comments second as the comments are often banal or incorrect.
I've used *-* for EX'ecuted instructions for 30 years & more. It's just a quick reminder that it may not do what you expect. Rgds, Dougie On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, 03:48 , <robi...@dodo.com.au> wrote: > On 2020-04-30 07:08, Kerry Liles wrote: > > I always thought that some programmers did that as an "eye catcher" > > to indicate that the value might nominally be zero but it will be > > dynamically modified elsewhere... > > (perhaps by an EX or worse - direct smashing) > > A naked zero is not remarkable but *-* is sort of jarring... to the > > reader. > > What's wrong with a comment? >
