st: local r(varlist)?

[Keith Dear <keith.dear@anu.edu.au>]

This is a small point I am puzzled by, but in the interests of 
knowing how Stata thinks:

Following -ds- (and I guess many other commands),

this works:
. foreach v of any `r(varlist)' {
(so r(varlist) is behaving like a local macro)

but this doesn't:
. foreach v of local r(varlist) {
(error message: "{ required")

what am I misunderstanding here?
kd

Dr Keith B.G. Dear
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National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Australian National University
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