I absolutely agree, I don't think I would contradict that in any way, I just think the above exchange I was replying to was silly on both fronts and dunno why i

I absolutely agree, I don't think I would contradict that in any way, I just think the above exchange I was replying to was silly on both fronts and dunno why it got heated but wanted to provide more tempered POV on the utility of the zero page as a set of registers. You can frame it that way, and compilers often do, but it's honestly stretching the "truth" a bit. And for that I got downvoted. Huh.