Paul James E. wrote :

Paul, three quotes from your post :

>  But concerning 'MACROS', I just haven't found them to help me in
>  any constructive way.  So therefore, I just don't use them.

>  yes I have tried them many times, but to me they
>  seem to be more bother than they're worth.
>
>  Maybe I'll try macros again, just
>  to see if my writing style or attitudes have changed.

Now, I read this as you are only talking about writing
*your own* macros. Well, yes, that is one side of the macro
storry. But then other side is as important,  using ready made
macros builtin in some development environment, such
as MPASM or Olin's environment. IMHO, that is a rather
different storry.

And, I think this thread started with a builtin macro in
MPASM, didn't it ?

I've been using Olin's stuff for some time, and it was
a jump start for me both into relocatable code, the interrupt
model in the 18-series and structured PIC programming
in general. I havn't studied every macro in detail, but hope
that they'll work "as advertised"...

And, if someone else wold like to "read" my code, I can just
(besides of my comments/docs) refer to Olin's descriptions
of his envir/macros. Or the MPASM help file for the builtin
macros available there.

So, my point is that macros isn't only about writing *your
own* macros. *I* havn't written a single macro myself, but
*use* them a lot.

Regards
Jan-Erik.

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