From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8342 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: diving into source code Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:01:18 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020623125832.0342e130@server-1> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398754 26760 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:45:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Patrick Gundlach In-Reply-To: <87r8j1d61p.fsf@gundla.ch> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8342 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8342 At 10:54 PM 6/20/2002 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote: >the \dododododdodosomething irritate you. They are just Hans' way of >keeping the source obscure. more a matter of namespacing -) >Just seen something like this: > >\def\dodogetargument#1################################1#2% > >got it? This is why I think that reading any not trivial TeX code is >rather difficult. (Well, Forth is even worse :) actually, such deeply nested args are seldom used; this is one of the few occasions where it cannot be avoided since #1 and #2 are delimiters (potential speedup: replace #1 by [ and #2 by ]) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------