>I don't disagree - but the line of code I posted is legal, and accomplishes the task without the need for the intervening memvar. I rarely advocate macro expansions, but Mike's syntactic argument was not correct. I did state up front that, IMO, EVAL() is a better solution.
Can you think of a place where macro expansion would be better than EVAL ?
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