Re: [bug-gawk] Access variables not conforming to the variable naming convention?

[Peng Yu]

> > please don't do that about SYMTAB :)
>
> Why not? Please give a good reason.

A specific example that I have is to parse a headed TSV file and refer
to columns by header names (all of these preprocessing are loaded as
premade awk files, so users don't need to know $1 $2 any more to refer
to columns). Without SYMTAB, it is impossible to do so.

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Regards,
Peng