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