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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ParamText Question
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Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 17:09:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 15 17:09:06 1987
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In article <2837@husc6.UUCP> olson@endor.UUCP (Eric Olson) writes:
>This is not a solution, but a praise of ParamText.  You can't define ParamText
>1 to be "^1" because it does the substitution in an infinite loop.

For the times when this is useful, you could always call ParamText a
second time in your program.  On the other hand, given this "feature",
there is no way to get it to stop when you want it to.

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Barry Margolin
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