Symbols as parameters?

[Stefan Behnel]

Alf P. Steinbach, 21.01.2010 11:38:
> * Carl Banks:
>> On Jan 20, 11:43 pm, Martin Drautzburg <Martin.Drautzb... at web.de>
> [snip]
>>
>>> What I am really looking for is a way
>>>
>>>         - to be able to call move(up)
>>>         - having the "up" symbol only in the context of the function
>>> call
>>
>> Short answer is, you can't do it.
>>
> 
> On the contrary, it's not difficult to do.
> 
> I provided an example in my answer to the OP (first reply in the thread).

Erm, no, you didn't. You showed a) how to pass a string constant into a
function and b) how to pass a value from a bound variable. None of that is
helpful to the OP's problem.

Stefan