On Friday 21 December 2012, Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 07:33:39AM +0200, thefox xofeht wrote: > > Mini rant: I've always felt that it would have been better if symbols > > defined in the macro were local by default, and non-local symbols > > would have to be explicitly defined. The reason being that in my > > experience the need for global symbols is much more rare. But there's > > no going back now! :) > > That has historicyl reasons (as usual :-). The old ca65 (which was a DOS > assembler) had this behavior. If I remember correctly, the idea came from > an old Atari assembler (mac65?). It might be possible to change it by some > sort of .FEATURE, but I doubt that it's really worth the trouble. i really like the idea though, having to use .scope all the time is quite annoying and makes the code less easy to read. then again.... who cares =) -- http://www.hitmen-console.org http://magicdisk.untergrund.net http://www.pokefinder.org http://ftp.pokefinder.org Life's tough, get a helmet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Fri Dec 21 19:23:45 2012
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