Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:53:17 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mB8ErFeQ005564 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:53:16 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mB8Emven011413 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:48:57 +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 mB7N2CAU022853; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:48:56 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 174132 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:48:55 +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 mB8EmtGj014938 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:48:55 +0100 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.230]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mB8Emrfj028354 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:48:57 +0100 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f9so1004338rvb.3 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:48:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.139.3 with SMTP id m3mr1690167rvd.124.1228747730844; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:48:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.1.102? (219-90-182-110.ip.adam.com.au [219.90.182.110]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k2sm26642998rvb.1.2008.12.08.06.48.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:48:50 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) 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> <493D311A.1050906@morningstar2.co.uk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-Spam-Whitelist: Message-ID: <0B575D06-4AFA-417C-AEE7-22E93CF60045@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 01:18:45 +1030 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Will Robertson Subject: Re: expl3 "token list" terminology To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <493D311A.1050906@morningstar2.co.uk> 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 14:53:17.0636 (UTC) FILETIME=[B46B7840:01C95944] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5532 On 09/12/2008, at 1:07 AM, Joseph Wright wrote: > 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. Ah, good point! W