Local macro variables are defined within an individual macro. Each macro you invoke creates its own local symbol table. Local macro variables exist only as long as a particular macro executes; when ...

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When the macro processor executes a macro program statement that can create a macro variable (such as a %LET statement), the macro processor attempts to change the value of an existing macro variable ...

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In programming, a variable used only within the routine or function it is defined in. When the function is finished and control is returned back to the part of the program that called it, the local ...

During the early 1900’s, [Einstein] was virtually at war with quantum theory. Its unofficial leader, [Niels Bohr], was constantly rebutting Einstein’s elaborate thought experiments aimed at shooting ...