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From: Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] MP keyval interface
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:45:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021018114533.016e033e.morawski@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vg01y6pjh75.fsf@frodo.imf.au.dk>

On 17 Oct 2002 16:03:26 +0200
Emil Hedevang Lohse <emil@imf.au.dk> wrote:

> Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > Ahoi MP experts,
> > 
> > i've tried to implement a keyval-interface in MP.
> > 
> > Currently it looks like
> > 
> > def keyvalFunc (text t) =
> > 	begingroup;
> > 	save status, col ;
> > 	numeric status; string col ;
> > 		t ;
> > 	show status;
> > 	show col ;
> > 	endgroup;
> > enddef;
> > 
> > keyvalFunc(status=1.0; col="Hallo" ) ;
> > 
> > This works, of course, but i would prefer if i could
> > use a comma instead of the ";" to separate the keyval-pairs.
> > 
> > Any ideas, how i can make "," be locally like ";"?
> 
> Perhaps 
> 
> begingroup
> let ,=;;
> endgroup
> 
> will do the job.

Thanks. I've already tried this. The problem was that it changes
the meaning globally, since MP groups do nothing until one 'save's
variables inside the group. But surprisingly (for me) this works:

 begingroup
 save , ;
 let ,=; ;
 endgroup

Jens
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      reply	other threads:[~2002-10-18  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-17 13:02 Jens-Uwe Morawski
2002-10-17 14:03 ` Emil Hedevang Lohse
2002-10-18  9:45   ` Jens-Uwe Morawski [this message]

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