On 6/27/2017 2:03 PM, Rob van der Heij wrote:
> Right, string operands wasn't in z/VM 6.3 yet. But going all that way?
>   pipe literal | dup 8 | spec number from -5 | cons

It was an exercise from last summer in trying to do what the doc said
was possible:

>> NUMBER is a convenience; the same  result  can  be  obtained  by 
>> incrementing a counter.                                          
> 
> How the heck do I set a nonzero initial value? 

The main point of that thread was about the difference in default length
between PICTURE and NUMBER that still trips me up every time.

¬R

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