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   From: jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk   
      
   In comp.lang.pascal.borland message , Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:02:01, Jim Leonard   
    posted:   
   >   
   >Not really, of course, since this is a pain in the ass to insert in   
   >the source code all over the place, so I'll probably just stick to the   
   >array reference.  If I truly truly need speed, I'll inline assembler   
   >the entire thing using xlat.   
      
   Have you considered the possibilities of using a Make File with a   
   scripted editor (or a Pascal program) as preprocessor?  You might then   
   be able to write the source code using lines such as   Hex ::= Nyb(wd)   
   and have them converted to asm..end blocks before the command-line   
   compiler sees them.  And, if all those are in Units, you might still run   
   the Main from the IDE.   
      
   But ISTM that it's a rather peculiar program if a large amount of its   
   work is converting nibbles.   
      
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