Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by h1439878.stratoserver.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-2build1) with SMTP id o16LLooY024407 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:21:52 +0100 Received: (qmail 2284 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2010 21:21:45 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Feb 2010 21:21:45 -0000 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay2.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.210.211] by mx0.gmx.net (mx072) with SMTP; 06 Feb 2010 22:21:45 +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 o16LJVvZ011352 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:19:31 +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 o15N1BUb014228; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:19:28 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 388415 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:19:28 +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 o16LJRSt016985 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:19:27 +0100 Received: from anchor-post-1.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-1.mail.demon.net [195.173.77.132]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o16LJKFs011233 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:19:23 +0100 Received: from morningstar2.demon.co.uk ([80.176.134.7] helo=palladium.local) by anchor-post-1.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) id 1Nds3g-0005Df-i4 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:19:16 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4B6DDCD4.5000003@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 21:19:16 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Joseph Wright Subject: Modules: l3num, l3fp, l3str To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Mail was not recognized as spam); Detail=5D7Q89H36p6i75npGen84eVAEFK/syJmAVhAT3mu30VXXBXVubWw5a7AOY+R3G7kYiLcc XTfSCNBXudks8jVIUKjkbe3FPvfAUYwC3vmjAmF69bigQm39dVChtkXsRe0ifFe2ZkCveJG6Uo4J I9YKg==V1; X-Resent-By: Forwarder X-Resent-For: rainer.schoepf@gmx.net X-Resent-To: rainer@rainer-schoepf.de X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 85.214.41.38 Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6221 Hello all, Various issues have been raised on c.t.t concerning expl3, and I'd like to address them one at a time here (some of the discussion might be quite quick, but I'd like to have a record of which items are "ticked off"). As a starter, lets take two issues I hope can be resolved relatively easily. The "num" data type does not really add to "int", and so l3num seems to be redundant. I've proposed dropping it entirely, and as this has been mentioned again I wonder if there are any good reasons not to. Second, the lack of a "string" data type came up (I'd imagine a string as something \detokenize'd). It seems pretty clear that both strings and floating-point numbers need some support in expl3, so I propose adding place-holder modules "l3str" and "l3fp" with some text in them saying that they will get written at some point. At this stage, I'm not asking for any decisions about what they might do, just suggesting that the modules themselves should exist (which may well push someone to write them). (More items to follow in separate threads: there may be a lot of e-mails from me.) -- Joseph Wright