variable lookups possible?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:38:38AM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Fairlight wrote:
> > I need to know something, really.  It changes which form something will
> > take--finished module or whitepaper/draft.  Basically, I need to know
> > whether the following can be variables in the following contexts:
> > 
> >      lookup generic=SOMEVARIABLE i=ANOTHERVAR ...
> > 
> > I also need to know if SOMEVARIABLE above could include the qualifier if it
> > is allowed to be variable at all.
> 
> The filename (including the qualifier) can be an expression.  The index
> cannot.

WISHLIST: could we make a complete sweep through the syntax, find all
the places where (var) will *not* currently allow a variable to replace
a literal, and 'fix' them?  I know we've had this thread at least 3
times this year, on different things... :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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