In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/22/2006
at 04:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'd expect a thorough enumeration facility to make it possible to
>determine the status of every member of the compound variable,
>whether set or dropped.
That would conflict[1] with the documentation of DROP as returning the
variable to the uninitialized state.
>... which is working as documented for Rexx.
No. See The REXX Language, 2nd Edition, p53.
>I assume symbol( 'stem.b' ) would have properly said 'LIT'.
A dropped variable gets LIT; an uninitialized variable gets VAR.
[1] As does returning the variable name instead of the stem value.
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