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Joseph Wright <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:18:01 +0100
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On 19/09/2011 07:32, Will Robertson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am I mistaken or did \msg_four_spaces: once exist?
> (For when writing messages to the console output.)
> Writing
> 
>   \c_space_tl \c_space_tl \c_space_tl \c_space_tl
> 
> just doesn't have the same ring to it.
> (Happy calling it \msg_indent: or something else if that would be better?)
> 
> Or am I just crazy? I know we don't just want to add new functions at random all the time.

We did have \msg_space:, \msg_two_spaces: and \msg_four_spaces:. The
argument for getting rid of them in that form was that they were not
really functions, so using \c_space_tl seemed equally valid.

With the implementation we have now, you can use "\ " for a space, but
there is an argument for a semantic 'code indent'. So \msg_indent: would
seem to be reasonable.

Joseph

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