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< > (Macro name delimiters)
Marks the start and end of a macro name in an application program.
Syntax
<name>Parameters
| name | The name to be assigned to a global macro, or a digit from 0 to 9 referring to one of the local macros belonging to the current macro program. |
Comments
A macro is a dynamically declared name that represents a character string. When a macro call is encountered in an application program, the macro call is replaced by the current character value of the macro.
A macro acquires values in one of two ways: implicitly, when the software encounters a call to a previously unknown global macro or unassigned local macro, or explicitly, in a LET or INPUT statement or a call to a local macro.
Example
let <EntSet> = "ENTS" let <Name> = "EntName"
Defines the global macro to represent the string ENT. Then the statement
list #<EntSet> format #<Name>
is interpreted as
list ENTs format EntName
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