>That would be like:
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>SET RETRO ON
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>Well, if it does what you need, who cares?

I was just joking :)

The actual issue (which is not clear from my original post) is that I use the TEXT TO command to build complex SQL statements. Parts of these statements can contain variables which are automatically generated by existing classes, and those get nicely merged using the TEXTMERGE keyword. It is all very generic and easy to use.
Now I have one exception to the rule where I would have liked to have the TEXTMERGE recursive, but I do not want a solution that forces the developer to remember to do something special wherever this exception will occur.

So instead I am going to solve this issue where it occurs in the building of the variable and not in the generic SQL statement builder.