On 2/17/26 11:49, Jonathan Scott wrote:
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EQU is not necessarily evaluated when encountered, but can be deferred and
retried later if anything isn't yet resolved. SETA must be evaluated when
encountered.
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This is redolent of classic two-pass assemblers (IFOX00) which required definition before use in defining further symbols (EQU) or storage (ORG). SETA could have done better and required only an absolute expression after lookahead.
-- gil
