Maybe a nice little explanation (educational with good examples) of ‘how to use
pass by reference’ and ‘building and using complex data structures’ would be
useful for people. Say, some ‘patterns’.
G
> On 16 Mar 2020, at 10:38, Hans Hagen wrote:
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> that said, after muy share of mp
> On 16 Mar 2020, at 10:23, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
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>> On 16 Mar 2020, at 10:10, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
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>>> On 16 Mar 2020, at 09:53, Gerben Wierda wrote:
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>>> Hola! So, the arguments passed to macros are by reference and not by value?
>>> I could have known of course,
On 3/16/2020 10:23 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
On 16 Mar 2020, at 10:10, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
On 16 Mar 2020, at 09:53, Gerben Wierda wrote:
Hola! So, the arguments passed to macros are by reference and not by value? I
could have known of course, they are simple expansions, but I’d
> On 16 Mar 2020, at 10:10, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
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>> On 16 Mar 2020, at 09:53, Gerben Wierda wrote:
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>> Hola! So, the arguments passed to macros are by reference and not by value?
>> I could have known of course, they are simple expansions, but I’d like to be
>> sure. IfI assign
> On 16 Mar 2020, at 09:53, Gerben Wierda wrote:
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> Hola! So, the arguments passed to macros are by reference and not by value? I
> could have known of course, they are simple expansions, but I’d like to be
> sure. IfI assign to a variable inside a vardef macro and that variable is not
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Hola! So, the arguments passed to macros are by reference and not by value? I
could have known of course, they are simple expansions, but I’d like to be
sure. IfI assign to a variable inside a vardef macro and that variable is not
’save’d I’m changing the original?
G
> On 16 Mar 2020, at
> On 15 Mar 2020, at 11:22, Gerben Wierda wrote:
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> I would like a vardef macro to return the pair of a picture and a bounding
> box. I don't want to use the setbound operator, because as soon as I do that,
> I cannot access the components of the picture anymore with pathpart.
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> I found