Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:22:37 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2CDMbc8001767 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:22:37 +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 n2CDHlMp021219 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:17:47 +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 n2C9NsDQ010714; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:17:34 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 199550 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:17:34 +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 n2CDHYaR021463 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:17:34 +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 n2CDHFbE028249 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:17:20 +0100 Received: from [139.222.131.131] (helo=ueams02.uea.ac.uk) by mailgate5.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lhkmh-0004fi-Np for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:17:15 +0000 Received: from [139.222.114.250] by ueams02.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lhkmg-0000vZ-NO for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:17:14 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <49B90B59.9060706@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:17:13 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Joseph Wright Subject: Functions with no arguments To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -4 () RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Mar 2009 13:22:37.0710 (UTC) FILETIME=[9CCD22E0:01C9A315] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5707 Hello all, A "philosophical" question. To make various bits of code clearer, I'm in the habit of splitting self-contained parts off. Sometimes, this results in functions which take no arguments. Under the LaTeX3 scheme, is it "acceptable" to have functions of no arguments rather than tlps containing the data? -- Joseph Wright