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 q0TDeLfY032094 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:40:22 +0100 Received: (qmail 326 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2012 13:40:16 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2012 13:40:16 -0000 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.100.212] by mx0.gmx.net (mx103) with SMTP; 29 Jan 2012 14:40:16 +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 q0TDbtHX012685 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:37:55 +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 q0T876Qb002175; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:37:54 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 1936016 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:37:54 +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 q0TDbsXu018256 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:37:54 +0100 Received: from mail-pz0-f49.google.com (mail-pz0-f49.google.com [209.85.210.49]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q0TDbmcC012670 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:37:53 +0100 Received: by dadz9 with SMTP id z9so2226690dad.22 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:37:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.74.170 with SMTP id u10mr32217929pbv.99.1327844268513; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:37:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.108] (219-90-217-86.ip.adam.com.au. [219.90.217.86]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id li19sm38432272pbb.17.2012.01.29.05.37.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:37:47 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) References: <4F254832.8040906@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 q0TDbsXu018257 Message-ID: <014519BB-5F48-4652-B285-64FF82E65B7B@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:07:43 +1030 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Will Robertson Subject: Re: Unexpandability inside \csname To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: <4F254832.8040906@morningstar2.co.uk> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (eXpurgate); Detail=5D7Q89H36p5x1RWm4Ldx8s9yiUs4bd0iV7MTVqUOzkc+zi5rXiBklPMdXIh2MUcBuR1kM DBOMgXxt2Tq4kFvAfjysTB68J+On129gSPKDTEyl/V1jAG8ERY2IkHQ4Ro9ZrloENCA+tqCojoAM IK5WK0OlHYXIzyemFOShzvYeLSXIk1XvKYry9q3Syg7IOuSuS6V3z288do=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: 6999 On 29/01/2012, at 11:52 PM, Joseph Wright wrote: > On 29/01/2012 12:56, Will Robertson wrote: >> Consider: >> >> \csname\ifnum 3 > 2 foo\fi\endcsname >> >> This (probably obviously to all of you) complains with the standard "Missing \endcsname inserted." presumably because there's an unexpandable implicit \relax inserted somewhere in there. > > No, it works fine :-) I assume you were thinking of something else. Ergh. It appears I was being a bit scattered :( I'm not even sure at this point how I reach that conclusion. Sorry for the noise! -- Will