<>               Literal-Text Operator                          MASM Operator
 
  <text>
 
    Treats text as a single element, whether or not it consists of white
    space, commas, spaces, or other separators.
 
       Notes:     This operator is used with macros and repeat blocks to
                  insure that values in a macro call are treated as a
                  single parameter.
 
                  This operator can also be used to make special
                  characters, such as the semicolon, act as literal
                  characters, rather than have special meaning.  For
                  example, a semicolon by itself signals a comment,
                  whereas <;> signals the semicolon character itself.
 
                  MASM strips one layer of angle brackets every time a
                  parameter is passed to a macro.  For macros that are
                  nested, care must be taken to insure that enough layers
                  of angle brackets are supplied.

Seealso:


 & 
 ! 
 % 
 ;;