Will Robertson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The fact that expl3 looks a bit strange probably doesn't exactly aid > its adoption, but I think the (functional) benefits of the Hungarian- > like notation outweigh the (marketing) drawbacks. george mikes (first name pronounced english, last hungarian: he was a hungarian who fled to britain in the 40s, i think) wrote a book called "how to be inimitable", about integrating into british society. one of his theses was that "we are all hungarian", and he illustrated it with a series of pictures of stereotypical english people squashed slightly so that they were short and had rather rounded faces. so, apart from the suspicion that this makes _every_ syntax "hungarian", i'm completely lost. what _do_ you mean, "hungarian"? do hungarians spend a lot of time lying down (_) or stumbling upright (:)? george mikes doesn't help. robin ps: the book was one of a series of very funny books he wrote.