From: Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: METAPOST vardef returning multiple and non-numeric types as a single answer?
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:52:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31A2AC33-A422-499C-B94A-D1C502D7EDF2@rna.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30920eea-ae02-142c-7c07-8c28534e5951@xs4all.nl>
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Maybe a nice little explanation (educational with good examples) of ‘how to use pass by reference’ and ‘building and using complex data structures’ would be useful for people. Say, some ‘patterns’.
G
> On 16 Mar 2020, at 10:38, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> that said, after muy share of mp programming i would not have thought about the text y as pass by reference, also because it's only true for these pseudo arrays (maybe suffixes also work)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-16 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-15 10:22 Gerben Wierda
2020-03-16 8:31 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-03-16 8:53 ` Gerben Wierda
2020-03-16 9:10 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-03-16 9:23 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-03-16 9:38 ` Hans Hagen
2020-03-16 9:52 ` Gerben Wierda [this message]
2020-03-16 9:48 ` Gerben Wierda
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