From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \def vs \define
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:26:26 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1107210925230.22379@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DC046BAB-7A2F-4D88-9AD1-7595E8ED50A8@st.estfiles.de>
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in this example the question mark nicely becomes part of the command name:
>
> \def\OverFull?{\overfullrule30\points}
> \OverFull?
>
>
> here it does not work at all:
>
> \define\OverFull?{\overfullrule30\points}
> \OverFull?
>
> (... but gives "??" instead)
>
>
> As "\define" seems to be more canonical:
> Does this result mean it is not recommended to use question marks in command names?
\setvalue{OverFull?}{...}
Perhaps we can have an equivalent \definevalue that also checks for
previous definitions.
Aditya
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2011-07-21 13:15 Steffen Wolfrum
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2011-07-21 13:26 ` Hans Hagen
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