Variable in export ascii export ascii aaa= ?variable name ? ?x

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When asked his whereabouts on Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:04:01PM -0400,
Dan Coutu took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> The magical incantation requires the use of parentheses. As a general 
> rule you can use parentheses around a variable almost anywhere. So do 
> this instead:
> 
> export ascii aaa = (MyVariable) -x

The exceptions are index names in lookup statements, and subscripts for
a lookup [lr]value, are they not?  The syntax i=(zz) in a LOOKUP and
lookupalias((aa)) [with or without extra parens] are both unusable,
correct?  

I've often wished for the latter--I've never gotten it to work.  I was told
it's not possible.  The former could also be very helpful in some situations.

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