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([129.127.15.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g14sm2789776rvb.40.2009.08.12.18.57.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-1--908992639; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) References: <4A816AD5.30303@elzevir.fr> <4A82A17F.7060008@elzevir.fr> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) X-Spam-Whitelist: Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:27:10 +0930 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Will Robertson Subject: Re: remarks on expl3.pdf To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <4A82A17F.7060008@elzevir.fr> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -6.599 () BAYES_00,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: 13 Aug 2009 02:01:28.0329 (UTC) FILETIME=[F85DFF90:01CA1BB9] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5916 --Apple-Mail-1--908992639 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12/08/2009, at 8:33 PM, Manuel P=E9gouri=E9-Gonnard wrote: > By the way, I spend a few more time reading parts of source3 =20 > yesterday, and I'd > like to say that the terminology is quite comfortable to read. Good to hear :) > It sounds more familiar to hear about functions and variables that =20 > about macros and macros. OTOH (but this is really a personnal =20 > impression) I'm sometimes confused by the use of "return". I think you're probably right that "expands to" is better than =20 "return", both for technical accuracy and for clarity. > IMO, it is certainly ok to keep the terminology, but adding warnings =20= > that > sometimes it doesn't actually fit the reality, but is only intended =20= > to simplify > reading. (Either a big general warning, or small foonotes in well-=20 > chosen places, > or both.) I'll try and work something into source3. 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