At 12:11 AM 3/13/96 PST, you wrote: >And finally, for completeness sake I suggest a tovalue() or fromliteral() >builtin. If this is non-trivial I'm willing to wait for someone else to >do this or perhaps attempt it myself, but if not I'd be nice to see it >in 1.8.0. Dude, it's called eval(), and it works just fine: ;$no_one:eval_d(toliteral(xxx))[2] == xxx Andy.