On Sunday 20 August 2006 09:57, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > As a followup, there are several better options: hmm, is there a spec somewhere that says what order symbols need to be resolved ? how about an alternative option: - in write_dollar_variable(), if the symbol starts with a '$', we first try to look it up via lookup_internalvar() ... if that fails, we fall back to lookup_symbol() and lookup_minimal_symbol() and then jump back to the lookup_internalvar() ... -mike