This would be feature bloat, as there are ways to do all this already. On Tue, 3 May 2011 13:17:27 -0700 (PDT) Dorai Sitaram <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wouldn't it be useful to have parameters like \$[m-n] that pick out > the parameters \$m through \$n ? Try writing a simple macro (eg) .params m n $@ where m or n can be -. > > Right now, a macro's body can use \$1 ... \$n, and \$*, and \$@, and > then call .shift howsoever many times to get the right "slice". > However, a similar ability isn't available for string definitions > (with .ds). \$[m-n] (and perhaps also \$[m-] and \$[-n] where one > end of the range is not specified) would ameliorate this lack. For strings try using the .substring command. Denis
