On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
<schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 05.03.2009 um 14:23 schrieb luigi scarso:
>
>>> http://texblog.net/latex-archive/plaintex/expandafter/
>>
>> hey, this is not a "moderate use of expandafter" as I intended ..
>> I dropped latex for similar examples .
>> In this situation
>> "please, grep setvalue base/*"
>
> ??? I can't understand the relation between \setvalue and the expandafter
> trick in the example on the webpage, setvalue hides the csname ... endcsname
> part but the example tries to avoid the \let\oldmacro\macro
> \def\macro{\oldmacro...}
> redefinition.
I don't like the
\let\oldmacro\macro \def\macro{\oldmacro...}
construct
because sometimes the \def\macro{\oldmacro...}
can cause unexpected behaviour
I prefear
\setvalue{quote small}{\quote\small}
{\getvalue{quote small} foo }
--
luigi
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