[Info-vax] Command Procedure Pipe output to a variable

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Saturday, October 9, 2021 at 4:39:17 AM UTC+13, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-10-08 00:46:44 +0000, Lawrence D’Oliveiro said: 
> 
>> If names are not symbols, then what are they?
>
> Symbols are DCL variables ...

Note I didn’t use the term “variable”. DCL also has functions, as I recall. And their names are symbols, too.

> Logical names are I/O system variables, and are accessible to (most) 
> file system clients.

Just another kind of “symbol”. You know, as in “symbolic” of something. The kind that is commonly kept in a “symbol table” somewhere.