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Yes, my intention was to be able to pass long literals for the addresses —
but your macros are obviously way better than anything else.
I've been using strongly typed Turbo Pascal for about two years now, and
it's great. Though it's strongly typed, it has all kinds of escape hatches
that let you circumvent the strong typing — it extends Pascal downward,
similar to how the proposed ANSI standard C would extend C upward with
function prototypes. Turbo lets you pass generic parameters, override types,
access memory directly, and anything else you can do in C — but not
unintentionally. Now if the Amiga version were only out… – Bela