can't put into field by id?

[Dr. Hawkins]

With a sequence like,

put the long id of fld (word 1 of myVar) into theFld
put "gizmo" into theFld

I end up with "gizmo" in the variable theFld, rather than the field it
references.

Am I doing something wrong, or does this just not work for fields (7.0-RC2)
-- 
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
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