On 6/7/23 14:08:16, Charles Mills wrote:
Dave, no offense was intended. Yes, I totally understood your meaning.
The mis-use of the term hexadecimal to mean vaguely "some value, possibly
not a printable character" is a personal bugaboo of mine. The IBM doc does
it: talking about specifying a word as containing "a hexadecimal value" when
what they mean is a binary value. Specifying a hexadecimal value would mean
specifying (character) 000A when what you meant was a binary value equal to
decimal 10.
+1
In IBM doc, how many RCFs would it take do remove the superfluous
and misleadingly apparently restrictive occurrences of hexadecimal
from "any hexadecimal"?
I suspect the intent was "any value that can be represented in
Assembler as a hexadecimal constant", but "any" suffices.
--
gil
