Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:09:38 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mB3M9YtT002435 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:09:34 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mB3M4qMX014279 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:04:52 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mB3BGIgu005073; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:04:09 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 181910 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:04:09 +0100 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mB3Ls9tI003113 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:54:09 +0100 Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.186]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mB3Lsg4Y009872 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:54:45 +0100 Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n29so754249gve.38 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:54:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.102.247.4 with SMTP id u4mr6476236muh.128.1228341245639; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:54:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from fawkes.hogwarts (HSI-KBW-091-089-116-170.hsi2.kabelbw.de [91.89.116.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y2sm10337896mug.14.2008.12.03.13.54.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:54:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by fawkes.hogwarts (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8B82226DFBF; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:54:02 +0100 (CET) References: <4936E30A.5080209@morningstar2.co.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Whitelist: Message-ID: <87ljuxlybp.fsf@fawkes.hogwarts> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:54:02 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Andreas Matthias Subject: Re: expl3 "token list" terminology To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <4936E30A.5080209@morningstar2.co.uk> (Joseph Wright's message of "Wed, 3 Dec 2008 19:50:34 +0000") Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -2.464 () BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Dec 2008 22:09:38.0346 (UTC) FILETIME=[D54608A0:01C95593] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5491 Joseph Wright wrote: > Will Robertson wrote: > >> I think "token list" describes the contents of a toks rather well (as it >> should!) but I'm at a lost what to call "a token list that doesn't >> contain unescaped # characters". Would "character list" work? > > If you do change the description, I assume that you'll also change the > l3tlp module and the variable names: > > ..._tlp => ..._chars (by analogy with ..._toks) > > \tlp_... => \chars_... > > \tlist_.. => \chlist_... or \charlist... (as \clist_... is taken) I disagree. I don't like it at all. Characters and tokens are distinct things in terms of TeX. LaTeX3 is already far away from TeX. Maybe too far. Don't push it even farther away by reinventing terms and definitions. "Token list pointer" might not be the most appropriate name but, please, don't call it characters. Ciao Andreas