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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!darwin.sura.net!europa.asd.contel.com!emory!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!arizona.edu!mvb.saic.com!macro32
  2. From: MILLER@TGV.COM
  3. Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
  4. Subject: re: UNEXPECTED SYSTEM SERVICE EXCEPTION
  5. Message-ID: <712439947.77751.MILLER@TGV.COM>
  6. Date: 29 Jul 92 19:59:07 GMT
  7. Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
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  9. X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List
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  12. >It could be fun trying to write a MACRO
  13. >equivalent : maybe a piece of code that did one sensible thing if you
  14. >JSB'ed it and a totally different sensible thing if you CALLed it!
  15.  
  16. It wouldn't be hard to write a program that did such a thing in a degenerate
  17. way, but to be completely phase shifted, now that would be something.
  18. You couldn't share a single instruction.
  19.  
  20. I always thought it would be interesting to write a program that consisted
  21. almost entirely of alphanumeric characters; a string that spelt out some
  22. message, prehaps it could print itself out.
  23.  
  24. Maybe we should have a contest...
  25.  
  26. -bruce
  27.