From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: unusual behaviour of \if(x)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:09:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <583B4BA0-6BD1-493D-9C7B-1E3ECE8962A8@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikqBgGfFjFek9ad4_yVk1CtO7WFWA@mail.gmail.com>
Am 01.06.2011 um 16:01 schrieb luigi scarso:
> no, --- infact I've said "this works", not "it's the only solution" or
> " it's the perfect solution".
> \ifcsname...
> looks a bit strange if I'm working with \newif .
And he’s cheating because he tests only the existence of the \ifabc command.
It’s easier to understand with the \ifdefined:
\ifx\hbox\undefined
\newif\ifabc \abcfalse
\ifdefined\ifabc … \else … \fi
\fi
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-01 13:26 Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-01 13:36 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-01 13:52 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-01 14:08 ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-01 14:10 ` luigi scarso
2011-06-01 13:46 ` luigi scarso
2011-06-01 13:56 ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-01 14:01 ` luigi scarso
2011-06-01 14:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
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