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From: Gerhard Postpischil
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:48

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Paul Hanrahan wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by a tabular form. True fonts with column
> orientation and prefix numbers and column numbers as opposed to proportional
> fonts without the editor providing visible line and column numbers are
> comfort items that a more GUI development environment for assembler could
> maintain.

Most of us adopt a coding style that speeds work and eases maintenance.
Labels are in columns 1-9, instructions in 10-15 (with the occasional
odd-ball macro longer), operands in 16-, comments in some favorite
column (mine at 30, some at 41, some at 50...), and change dates or
numbers around 65. This makes it relatively easy to FIND items - if I
need subroutine calls, I can scan for BAL/BAS in column 10, without
getting false hits on comment or operand text. Ditto for change
numbers/dates. With continued comments, either you get excessive white
space that breaks the instruction flow, or the comments intrude into
statement fields that produce false matches on searches.

Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT

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Subject: Re: Assembly coding guidelines
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