Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:42:02 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mB8Eg0C0005391 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:42:00 +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 mB8EbVUX008494 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:37:32 +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 mB7N2C9E022853; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:37:28 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 174046 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:37:28 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mB8EbSIo012758 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:37:28 +0100 Received: from mailgate5.uea.ac.uk (mailgate5.uea.ac.uk [139.222.130.185]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mB8EbEoZ019415 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:37:17 +0100 Received: from [139.222.128.187] (helo=ueams04.uea.ac.uk) by mailgate5.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L9hEY-0001CL-9j for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:37:14 +0000 Received: from [139.222.203.30] by ueams04.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L9hEY-0001f4-9M for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:37:14 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4936E30A.5080209@morningstar2.co.uk> <87ljuxlybp.fsf@fawkes.hogwarts> <49370743.7050004@morningstar2.co.uk> <18745.37877.845526.230207@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <18747.60665.106015.681211@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <944107A6-E45B-4F33-8F7B-AF98DC95AB54@gmail.com> <18748.52807.627728.138832@morse.mittelbach-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <493D311A.1050906@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:37:14 +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: 08 Dec 2008 14:42:02.0296 (UTC) FILETIME=[21E2C380:01C95943] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5531 Will Robertson wrote: > While we're discussing terminology, is there any overarching reason that > global and local variables have their scope as a prefix \g_ or \l_ ? (My > reason for asking being that I would slightly prefer something like > \module_name_l_tlp or something thereabouts, but I'm not really fussed.) My thinking was that \l_... makes it easy to see a variable in a load of \ functions. -- Joseph Wright