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From: rabson@harvard.UUCP (David Rabson)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng,net.lang
Subject: A language with position independence
Message-ID: <222@harvard.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 23:50:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 16 23:50:32 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Apr-84 07:19:33 EST
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard
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Someone asked about a language with position independence; the
supplied-with VMS default assembler, MACRO-32, implements this
rather nicely.  Macros can be defined with named arguments and
defaults, and may be called normally (with arguments in order):

	MY_MACRO	TRANSPARENT, THIS, NEGATE, IS

or with the names:

	MY_MACRO	SUBJECT=THIS, VERB=IS, MODIFIER=NEGATE,-
			PREDICATE=TRANSPARENT

In the definition of the macro, supplied values indicate defaults.

David A. Rabson	    Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services
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