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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
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Subject: Re: getcommalistsize
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Hans van der Meer wrote:
> 
> As can be seen the macro \getcommalistsize does not give a value  back, 
> \processcommalist works.
> Am I doing something wrong here or understood it wrong?

\getcommalistsize puts its result (the length of the commalist)
in \commalistsize, but does not expand to anything, so using
"direct call"s does not work.

Cheers, Taco