On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 20:48 -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > In other words, you can assemble some code, execute it, then go back > to assembling the rest of the source text. Cute. Suppose you want > to do something too hard for macros; just assemble its input data, > followed by some code to convert that into the form you want, then go > back to assembling more code.
I proposed this for Fortran about twenty years ago, and for what became Ada when it was just DoD\1 requirements in about 1976.