MCSKIP "WITH" NL "" Special variables "" There are four different kinds of variables in ML/I. "" Permanent (P) variables - these have no special predefined values. "" Character (C) variables - these have no special predefined values. "" Temporary (T) variables - a macro has at least three of these, and "" those have predefined values. "" System (S) variables - these are for control and status. The number "" of these is implementation dependent. MCSKIP MT,<> MCINS %. MCDEF TVARDEMO , NL AS TVARDEMO xxx,yyy MCDEF SVARDEMO WITHS NL AS - value is %S4. S5 is the count of processing errors - value is %S5. S6 enables the definition of an atom to be changed - value is %S6. S7, S8 and S9 are currently unused. All other S-variables have implementation defined meanings. > SVARDEMO