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From: C445585@UMCVMB.BITNET ("John M. Kelsey")
Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370
Subject: programming style
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Date: 26 Feb 91 21:27:43 GMT
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   One thing I've always done, but have seldom seen other programmers do,
is to use some character to separate the assembly language instructions and
operands from the line comments by some character--in my case, a semicolon.
This seems to make programs a lot more readable, and, with properly written
XEDIT macros, is fairly simple.... Something like this:

LOOPTOP   L          R4,0(R5)       ; Get ARR1(I) integer
              A          R4,0(R6)       ; Add it to ARR2(I)
              ST         R4,0(R5)       ; Put it back into ARR1(I)
              LA         R5,4(R4)       ; Move ptrs to next locations--
              LA         R6,4(R6)       ; essentially I = I + 1
          BCT        R3,LOOPTOP     ; Bottom of loop

   Does anyone else do anything similar?  (I've seen one person use
asterisks instead of semicolons, but I started learning 370 assembly
language and 8086 assembly language at the same time, and semicolons
somehow look more 'natural.'

   --John