It would be helpful to know what you are trying to do. Try explaining what that it without prejudging the question whether "compound variable names" are needed to do it.
They are available at almost any level of complexity you need, as the identifiers of created set symbols and set-symbol arrays, as in the trivial example |&prefix setc 'Etaoin' |&infix0 setc 'Alfred' |&infix1 setc 'Prufrock' |&suffix setc 'Shrdlu' |&switchid setc '&prefix'.'&infix0'.'&infix1'.'&suffix' | lclb &(&switchid) ---identifier is: 'EtaoinAlfredPrufrockShrdlu' |&(&switchid) setb (t'&P2 ne 'O') ---P2= value coded/present? Again, tell us what you want to do. Doing it is almost certainly possible. Berndt's suggestion that this discussion be moved to the assembler list is a very good one. There is overlap among the readers of these two lists, but HLASM language constructs of any complexity bore and discourage people who don't use it regularly. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
