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Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Maybe I confused pre/post in my previous message. I always meant post-grabbing
> and pre-actual-function-call processing :-)
I guessed that was the case: just wanted to be 100 % clear.
>> (2) + for \long, upper-case for defaults on optional arguments:
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>> \DeclareDocumentCommand \foo { o >\MakeHarmless +m }
>> \DeclareDocumentCommand \foo { O{default} >\MakeHarmless +m }
>> \DeclareDocumentCommand \foo { +o >\MakeHarmless +m }
>> \DeclareDocumentCommand \foo { +O{default} >\MakeHarmless +m }
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> I'm in favour of option 2. It looks more "extensible", if extensions are ever
> needed in the future.
I think this is the consensus view: I'm going to look at doing this
(really pretty close to what xparse has anyway).
> OTOH, as you mentioned in another message, it would be very interesting to
> detect trivial cases like only 'm' arguments and use the trivial (hence purely
> expandable) parser in this case with DeclareDocumentCommand.
I'm viewing "only m" as a rather special case, as there is clearly no
need for extra processing. The only place this shows up, I think, is as
you point out when TeX is looking for an \omit.
--
Joseph Wright
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