In
<6935415174647799.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu>,
on 06/13/2013
at 08:56 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]>
said:
>Easy, if you refer to an UNASSIGNED stem item, the default value is
>'empty' if you try to refer to it.
No; the default is the compound variable name in upper case. You're
seing 'empty' because you explicitly assigned that value to hole.
(hole. = "empty"). Change that to hole. = 'something else' and you'll
see 'something else'; remove the statement and you'll get a value of
the compound variable name[1] in upper case, e.g., HOLE.1.
[1] Which may not be the same as the original symbol, e.g.,
/* REXX */
dick = jane
foo.1 = bar
say foo.dick
/* FOO.JANE */
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Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
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