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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:07:43 +1030
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Subject: Re: Unexpandability inside \csname
From: Will Robertson <[log in to unmask]>
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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

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