On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:35 PM, Edward Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net>
wrote:
> > —————————————SNIP------------------------------------
> > ALTER is bad because its not obvious when you look at a piece of code
> where it might actually branch to.
> >
>
> Alter has *ALWAYS* been bad.
>
> Ed
>
>
In the past, I would have disagreed with you. But I've "evolved" since
then. I used to do the equivalent, sort of, in HLASM back before I became
"enlightened" to make my programs RENT,REFR and generally LE enabled. I
loved coding "do once" code similar to:
SOMELBL NOP REALLBL
OI SOMELBL+1,X'F0' MAKE UNCOND BRANCH
* DO ONE-TIME PROCESSING
REALLBL DS -H
I mean, that saved me a byte for the do-once switch as well as a compare
instruction to test it.
--
"Pessimism is a admirable quality in an engineer. Pessimistic people check
their work three times, because they're sure that something won't be right.
Optimistic people check once, trust in Solis-de to keep the ship safe, then
blow everyone up."
"I think you're mistaking the word optimistic for inept."
"They've got a similar ring to my ear."
>From "Star Nomad" by Lindsay Buroker:
Maranatha! <><
John McKown
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