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From: Gerhard Postpischil
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 13:20

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Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
> I was just pointing out that continuing the comment on the next card
> is a "solution" to the stated "problem" of the lack of space on the
> line due to other required data. If your comment needs to be
> x-characters long, what is the difference between it taking up one or
> two lines (the latter due to there not being enough room on the first
> line)?

The assembler is faster to work with due to the tabular form of its
input (and output). While continuations are sometimes unavoidable, they
break the visual flow. Voluminous comments look better in a "flower box"
preceding a group of lines, than as continued comments. At best, the
continuation comment should start after column 20 so as not to interfere
with the instruction column.

Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT

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Subject: Re: Assembly coding guidelines
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