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 p9D7ssXV032500 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:54:55 +0200 Received: (qmail 1071 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2011 07:54:49 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2011 07:54:48 -0000 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay2.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.210.211] by mx0.gmx.net (mx118) with SMTP; 13 Oct 2011 09:54:48 +0200 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 p9D7qRKm021789 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:52:27 +0200 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 p9D7FjOA001703; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:52:27 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 1789455 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:52:27 +0200 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 p9D7qRtp018994 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:52:27 +0200 Received: from mail-gy0-f177.google.com (mail-gy0-f177.google.com [209.85.160.177]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p9D7qLf9021720 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:52:25 +0200 Received: by gyd10 with SMTP id 10so2163989gyd.22 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.101.182.2 with SMTP id j2mr151460anp.47.1318492340917; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (d175-39-2-178.sbr800.nsw.optusnet.com.au. [175.39.2.178]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k31sm14033034ann.15.2011.10.13.00.52.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) References: <4E93664D.7090105@residenset.net> <7225.1318285652@cl.cam.ac.uk> <4E945FF9.1060803@residenset.net> <4E952E50.3020004@morningstar2.co.uk> <4E954A90.8080103@latex-project.org> <4E956E3A.8000707@morningstar2.co.uk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Spam-Whitelist: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id p9D7qRtp018995 Message-ID: <1F29A882-842D-457B-9B43-BBE2E073675A@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:22:14 +1030 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Will Robertson Subject: Re: Strings, and regular expressions To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: <4E956E3A.8000707@morningstar2.co.uk> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (eXpurgate); Detail=5D7Q89H36p6sJLDpZh614CxMiiOljKSn9Du1ry5ZYRUHs8VRfzDpIKTYY8dfUTJ//FDri tKODGzQGZ2IBtF3TMYENXy7Zyqp/urb9yaMCDC2WLuNS33to7KJSHIGPdMX4rVitLCC8awr4PJFz F3QUUfz15tIopnCXoK4u33PPt7InfdXDL+ElKZs69OdK7BAOIgX1AxlUYo=V1; X-Resent-By: Forwarder X-Resent-For: rainer.schoepf@gmx.net X-Resent-To: rainer@rainer-schoepf.de Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6932 On 12/10/2011, at 9:08 PM, Joseph Wright wrote: > Well, both 'once' and 'first' assume you know something about the > 'order' of the variable (otherwise 'once' could mean anything). I'd > agree that 'first' is probably better overall: make the change? False alarm -- such changes are too disruptive to expl3 users (including us) and we're trying hard to keep expl3 as stable as possible in this regard. Cheers, -- Will