Comment by sfink

Right, that's what I was thinking in my 2nd paragraph. No real reason not to, I suspect it just conflicted with the mindset of cleverness that you had to have for other reasons. Macros for >1 instruction would be fine, macros for 1 instruction would be looked down on because you haven't joined the club by twisting your brain into knots.

> I use to write lots of 6502 and 68k assembler, and 68k especially tended to look quite human-readable by the time devs ended up writing macros for everything.

Yes. I only did nontrivial amounts of 6502 and x86, but from what I saw of 68k, it seemed like it started out cleaner-looking and more readable even before adding in macros. (Or for all I know, I was reading code using built-in macros.)