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in thread Creating dispatch table with variable in function name

That might actually be worse. Instead of coming to a screeching halt, the process would produce a warning message that might get tucked away in an error log somewhere and go unnoticed for days/weeks/months/years/ever.


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Re^8: Creating dispatch table with variable in function name
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Nov 22, 2017 at 17:48 UTC

    The whole point of that post was to show that you can choose how to deal with it.

      Agreed, but the point of my posts was to show why I would be inclined to approach the whole problem in a different way, i.e., by avoiding symbolic manipulations altogether.


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        Fair enough.