what -I- consider a bug in *cabe

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:58:08 -0400):

> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:42:45PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > > ::declare longvar;longvar="abcde":
> > > ::lookup test = demo k=longvar i=a -nx:
> >
> > This _is_ a syntax error.  What follows "k=" must either be a field,
> > or an expression contained within parentheses.  The variable "longvar"
> > is not a "field".
>
> The argument of k= *is* permitted to be a short-named nummy variable;
> could you expand on how long-named dummy variables are semantically
> different in the parser?

Those one- and two-letter things are called "dummy fields".

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