>One useful thing for the macros I found was for calling a procedure whose name is in a table, or calculated somehow - like when I calculated interest using several methods, and calling calc01, calc02, calc03 routines, and, you may guess, the table contained "01", "03" and such in the UseMethod field. Then I calculated the factor like this:
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>lcMeth=table.UseMethod
>lnCoeff=calc&lcMeth()
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>Of course, I had to make damn sure there were no impossible values in the UseMethod field.
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>HTH

You still don't need macros to do this- you can use EVAL instead.

lcMeth= "calc." + ALLTRIM(table.UseMethod) + "()"
>lnCoeff=EVAL(lcMeth)

Faster, and IMHO, better.