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From: phil@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370
Subject: Re: structured assembler macros
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Date: 13 Apr 91 07:46:18 GMT
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In comp.lang.asm370 you write:

>>It is permissable to nest structures within the condition evaluation
>>parts.  There is no equivalent to this capability in common high
>>level languages except for the ?: operators in C.

>Also Lisp (though you might not consider it a "common" HLL :-~).

1.  I don't know Lisp enough to know that.  I've tried to learn Lisp
    but have never been able to grasp the BASIC concept.

2.  I was thinking in terms of procedural languages like C, Pascal,
    Fortran, etc.
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