From: "Marcel Fabian Krüger" <tex@2krueger.de>
To: ConTeXt users list <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \scantokens in luametatex
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 20:33:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200814183318.dekb74hrg3i2vtdb@yoga> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200813123150.pliodlucp6crv3r5@yoga>
Thank you for fixing this!
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 02:31:51PM +0200, Marcel Fabian Krüger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in the current luametatex upload, \scantokens (and also \scantextokens)
> behave odd: They seem to act like \detokenize, except that spaces get
> catcode other instead of catcode space:
>
> \starttext
> \edef\abc{\scantokens{\relax}}
> \abc
> \edef\abc{\scantextokens{\relax}}
> \abc
> \stoptext
>
> used to result in an empty output file but with luametatex, it writes \relax \relax to the output.
>
> \starttext
> \def\showsecond#1{\show}
> \edef\abc{\scantokens{a b}}
> \expandafter\showsecond\abc
> \edef\abc{\detokenize{a b}}
> \expandafter\showsecond\abc
> \stoptext
>
> prints
>
> > the character
> > blank space
>
> Best regard,
> Marcel Krüger
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