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 o1NMEV6F011947 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:14:32 +0100 Received: (qmail 4598 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2010 22:14:26 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2010 22:14:25 -0000 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.100.212] by mx0.gmx.net (mx075) with SMTP; 23 Feb 2010 23:14:25 +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 o1NMCE3f011512 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:12:14 +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 o1NHqi7p015071; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:12:06 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 391569 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:12:05 +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 o1NMC5MV016908 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:12:05 +0100 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.9]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o1NMC0i2011367 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:12:03 +0100 Received: from morse.mittelbach-online.de (p54A87849.dip.t-dialin.net [84.168.120.73]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MAkmJ-1Nvug62hlj-00BRey; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:12:01 +0100 Received: by morse.mittelbach-online.de (Postfix, from userid 501) id CDD526DC9F; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:11:58 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6EBBC8A1-0CB0-451D-AF0A-3EF2A41C0B52@YAHOO.DE> <3C45FBBF-D0F3-4C13-919D-AF69C8A6A808@gmail.com> <8AC89CD6-A3C0-4756-9C61-FC1D3EAC8FDA@yahoo.de> <19321.16363.714913.576934@morse.mittelbach-online.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/G4O/U5abdo6qTIf5onNEEh5sAVNTIWAodEEZ jS8TvanX7tGra254SBffOzmm1mzGrM4m8zhLIjco6QNlK7gsTb WPEevRD6wDkC1IoVz/R6w== X-Spam-Whitelist-Provider: Message-ID: <19332.21166.801746.989639@morse.mittelbach-online.de> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:11:58 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Frank Mittelbach Subject: Re: Assorted suggestions pt. 1 - \exp_arg_unbraced:No To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Mail was not recognized as spam); Detail=5D7Q89H36p6i75npGen84eVAEFK/syJmiNoEBJhgjYKpglu1TZLLw7xMZnJMXwBFK0zrU udEInhYyaWAzwtcf5K2pCdD+gZ2/z4PnBLkwixGASrqBNk5Pv3bcvHn3tbs4oIltnQrVWdt4WTJN xmyXA==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: 6303 Philipp > > for a start \exp_after:wN should normally not be needed except on very > > low-level programming (which should largely only happen in the kernel). For > > the rest the l3expan concept really provides a much more powerful and > > consistent interface. > > In my case I need it indeed as a replacement of a high-level function: > namely, a variant of \tl_map_inline that looks at three groups at a > time. This is trivial with a macro that takes three undelimited and one > "rest" argument, so perhaps l3tl could have \tl_map_function_ii, > \lt_map_inline_ii and so on. Then I wouldn't need this any more. could you provide some code examples of what you are after? quite likely we miss something that should be provided, on the other hand perhaps not and there are good ways to do things differently only not well explained thanks frank