More control over use of macro parameters

[thrust26]

Macro parameters are sometimes handled as values and sometimes as string. But the user has no control over it.

Example:

  MAC TEST
    .byte   {1}
  ENDM

_VAL SET 0
  REPEAT 3
    TEST _VAL
_VAL SET _VAL + 1
  REPEND

This results into:

  .byte 0
  .byte 1
  .byte 2

Now, if I want to do the same with a label, this doesn't work.

    MAC TEST
Label{1}
    ENDM

_VAL SET 10
    TEST _VAL

Results into Label_VAL. But what I need is Label10,

And sometimes I even want both, value and string. E.g.

  MAC TESTP
    IF (>{1}) != (>{2})
      ECHO {1}, "not on same page as", {2}
    ENDIF
  ENDM

Label1
  .byte 1,2, 3
Label2
    TESTP Label1, Label2

Here I want to print out the labels names, not the values.

Therefore it would be good if the user get some control over the output. Maybe similar to [value]d, which outputs a number as decimal. So [value]v would output as value (also [value]d as decimal value, not only in strings) and [value]s would output as string.

So my 2nd example from above would look like this:

    MAC TEST
Label[{1}]d
    ENDM

_VAL SET 10
    TEST _VAL

And create Label10.