The point here is that delete should delete, rather than just being a shorthand for
"put empty into" in some situations.
As far as consistency goes, Jacqueline is at least partially correct. Consider delete
with a variable:
global largeData
globalNames() -> list will not include largeData
put 1 into largeData
globalNames() -> list will include largeData
delete largeData
globalNames() -> list will still include largeData
But this is hardly consistent with other delete operations:
delete field 1
delete file <filespec>
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