NEW and OLD in EXECUTE

Are we not allowed to use NEW and OLD in an EXECUTEd statement?

Postgresql 7.1 beta 4

Received:
ERROR:  NEW used in non-rule query

from within a plpgsql function (using an EXECUTE statement of course).

That aside, is there anyway to do:

v_var := NEW.v_variable;

As it would be an acceptable alternative.

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