On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 18:19:12 -0500, Wayne Gordon <way### [at] phoenixnet>
wrote:

>> or, alternatively, some way to convert strings to identifiers, like
>> this:
>
>Impossible.

Not impossible.  Just not useful except as a workaround for the lack
of other data types.  For examples of languages that can do this (but 
in which most people wisely choose not to) see Perl or Lisp and look
at the 'eval' function.

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