Creation password prompt at runtime

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:44:28PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > > that lookup syntax should be able to be lookup joe = filename@(var_qual)
> > > so that changing qualifiers does not fall into same category.
> > 
> > That would be an acceptable alternative syntax, surely, but I still
> > remain unconvinced that such thinigs are done by the parser, rather
> > than the individual routines that execute the commands (which makes it
> > harder to make said syntax universal).
> 
> There is but a single routine to parse expressions.

If that's true, then why is it that '(variablename)' is not an
acceptable substitute in *all* places where an unquoted literal is
required by the syntax?  That is: why won't his desired syntax, shown
above, work *now*?

Cheers,
-- jra
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