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HELP POP_SECTION A. Sloman, April 1983 Revised by Fran Evelyn, July 85 pop_section => ** <section_name> The value of the constant POP_SECTION is the section record for the top-level section of the POP system. All other sections can be reached by working downwards from this section, which is the root node of the section tree. A 'pathname' syntax is provided to enable reference to identifiers within sections. The word "$-" is used to separate parts of the pathname, so that for example $-tom$-dick$-harry refers to the identifier HARRY in sub-section DICK of section TOM (TOM being a sub-section of POP_SECTION). When the top-level section is the current section, the procedure *CURRENT_SECTION (which returns the name of the current section) prints out as follows: current_section => ** <section> See REF *SECTIONS for full details on sections in POP-11. See also HELP *SECTIONS - on defining sections in POP-11 *CURRENT_SECTION - on accessing and changing current section *SECTION_CANCEL - how to cancel a section *SMATCH - on using MATCHES within sections *GLOBAL - on the use of global identifiers in POP-11