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From: "Mittelbach, Frank" <frank.mittelbach@EDS.COM>
Subject: AW: tlp type
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to answer from my perspective:

i prefer \def:Npn over \def:NNn even for a function without arguments. I already wrote why i think there should not be any \def:NNn in the first place but beside that, having #1 #2 ... in case there are arguments is far more important to me than not having anything in case of no arguments (and the "p" stands out fairly well as well) ... but clearly those are all fairly subjective feelings about the universe

frank

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Von: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project [mailto:LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE] Im Auftrag von Joseph Wright
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Betreff: Re: tlp type

Will Robertson wrote:
> 
> \def:Npn \store_something: {Something}
> 
> (I prefer it without the "0" argument spec.)
> 

I was wondering about this.  For macros with no arguments, I was thinking :NNn has the advantage that the second N is "seen", whereas Npn has an invisible p argument.