MACRO

MACRO macroname macroarguments

The MACRO command executes the macro specified by macroname, passing to it the arguments specified by macroarguments. The macro will be started in its own variable environment, meaning that any changes the macro does to the environment will be lost after its execution.

The macro source code macroname must be loaded (see the LOAD command). The macroarguments passed to the macro are stored in the variable #ARGV of the called macro. Because of the special command-line processing in STx, all string replacements are applied to and all special parsing information (e.g. quotation marks) are removed from macroarguments before it is assigned to #ARGV. For more information on argument passing, and parsing, see Argument Passing. For a broader information on macro programming, see Script Programming in STx.