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On 10/09/2008, at 12:06 AM, Joseph Wright wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A "philosophy" question. For storing values that will be used "as
> is",
> normally one would do \def\storesomething{Something}. In the LaTeX3
> model, I can choose either
>
> \def:NNn \store_something: 0 {Something}
or
\def:Npn \store_something: {Something}
(I prefer it without the "0" argument spec.)
> or
>
> \tlp_new:N \l_store_something_tlp
> \tlp_set:Nn \l_store_something_tlp {Something}
>
> and get the same result, function-wise. Is the later closer to the
> model proposed, or should I stick with the former?
I think the philosophy is that \def:NNn and friends are designed to
create "functions", whereas tlps and the like are designed to store
"data".
So I'd choose the latter, but I'd be interested to hear the others'
opinions.
Will
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