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Today I'm writing code in the worst programming language I've ever seen. Evidently the function parameters of built-in functions must be constants, not variables. This doesn't work:

Builtin(MyVar)

but this does:

if MyVar == 1:
    Builtin(1)
if MyVar == 2:
    Builtin(2)

My boss writes "I gave Campbell a rough tine about this when CRbasic first came out. I had forgotten how frustrated I was that they forced me to do something so obviously inelegant." So at least I'm in good company.