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 q7O2eQMk009629 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:40:27 +0200 Received: (qmail 15046 invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2012 02:40:20 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2012 02:40:20 -0000 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.100.212] by mx0.gmx.net (mx058) with SMTP; 24 Aug 2012 04:40:20 +0200 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 q7O2cHec022785 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:38:17 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q7NK8NfM016221; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:38:17 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 2339935 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:38:17 +0200 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q7O2cHxr030110 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:38:17 +0200 Received: from mail-vc0-f177.google.com (mail-vc0-f177.google.com [209.85.220.177]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q7O2b2xk010958 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:37:06 +0200 Received: by vcbfl15 with SMTP id fl15so138886vcb.22 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:37:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.149.130 with SMTP id t2mr2357564vcv.8.1345775822529; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:37:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.219.102 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:37:02 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id q7O2cHxr030111 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:37:02 -0400 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: "Joel C. Salomon" Subject: What does the `_x:` suffix mean? To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (BackTrace mail analyze); Detail=5D7Q89H36p4L00VTXC6D4q0N+AH0PUCnGL2vqOgpaBYL16oitsMrgDt/NQNpSCZFFjDOy 97xb7Zpf+wZnd5ZXNcvLDXR3Wg3wRjdQbwEMh8=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: 7139 I’m following the LaTeX3 bug tracker, and saw the issue about `\lua_now:x` being renamed to `\lua_now_x:n`. I suspect the explanation will be over my head, but since I haven't seen this discussed on this list or explained in the l3 docs I figure someone's got to ask: What's the difference between the `:x` signature and the `_x:n` suffix+signature? —Joel