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anonymous data object
Unnamed
data object created by the statement CREATE DATA, the
instance operator
NEW, or the
addition NEW of the INTO clause of a
query and addressed using
reference variables or
field symbols. Anonymous data objects are stored in the
heap. An anonymous data object is kept alive by
heap references or by field symbols pointing to it. See also
named data object and literal.