Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:51:29 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mB5EpRK7000790 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:51:27 +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 mB5EihGV028761 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:44:43 +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 mB5Eb0aN011235; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:44:33 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 175799 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:44:33 +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 mB5EiXrf013611 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:44:33 +0100 Received: from mailgate5.uea.ac.uk (mailgate5.uea.ac.uk [139.222.130.185]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mB5EiHtB028487 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:44:21 +0100 Received: from [139.222.128.187] (helo=ueams04.uea.ac.uk) by mailgate5.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L8buj-0007AZ-O4 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:44:17 +0000 Received: from [139.222.200.103] by ueams04.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L8buj-0007vg-Ml for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:44:17 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4936E30A.5080209@morningstar2.co.uk> <87ljuxlybp.fsf@fawkes.hogwarts> <039B3783CD514B509970052B8B93789E@JavierPC> <27990a880812040533x3316ce17n3e5ae0777b9590c@mail.gmail.com> <031B4E01889C40D384D5F3F50B32C65A@JavierPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <49393E44.8080503@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:44:20 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Joseph Wright Subject: Re: expl3 "token list" terminology To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -2.599 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Dec 2008 14:51:29.0362 (UTC) FILETIME=[F4A4EB20:01C956E8] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5504 Javier Bezos wrote: > The problem with _ is it has two different meanings - namely, > as "space" in names and as module separator. Either the first > _ is *always* a module separator, or a different character > should be used. Having the module clearly differentiated is > more consistent and allows for future refinements. So \module:name_with_underscores:argspec or \module::name_with_underscores:argspec would be better, I assume. -- Joseph Wright