Array of structs in a struct

ouadji,

Second variant emulates times control directive behavior (it expands % symbol in the rest of line with the number of current iteration):

Code:

points times 10 POINT %, %*%
;the same as
;points    POINT 1, 1
;points_2  POINT 2, 3
;points_3  POINT 3, 9
;points_4  POINT 4, 14
;...
;points_9  POINT 9, 81
;points_10 POINT 10, 100

Better yet, since it's macro, you can use macro operators # and ` (backquote/backtick) in data definition

Code:

points_1 = points; this is needed because subscript names was generated starting with second POINT instance
ppoints times 10 dd points_\\#%; imagine they're noncontiguous and randomly spaced
npoints times 10 db "points_", \\`%, 0; surely can be done with interpretive layer, but isn't this simpler?

to generate (for example) array of pointers to those structs, and strings (just don't forget to protect them with backslashes enough, so they won't trigger earlier than needed).

Usefulness of this is questionable; they can't be nested currently (a times 3 times % db % don't expand second times but replaces both %s); no check for count<=0 is done (it fails differently for count<0 and count==0). Quick'n'dirty hack as it is — and I like it. Wink