On Apr 16, 2012, at 06:17, McKown, John wrote:

> I was writing on my tablet at home when I posted that. The "strangeness" is 
> that although it looks like a GLBA, and the value is "incremented" if used by 
> a nested macro, the value within a given invocation of a macro is 
> "unchanging", unless specifically set by code in the macro.
>
Sounds like an excellent, very proctical design; hardly "strange".
This is akin to the behavior of keyword parameters to a macro
which are not (I hope -- I haven't tried it; does the manual make
it clear?) changed by a nested call to a macro with similarly
named parameters.

-- gil

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