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| Aug 24, 2022 at 23:26 | comment | added | COTO |
"It may be a symptom of being experienced in another programming language or paradigm and trying to apply this in LaTeX.": This is a fair point. However, the contexts where I've found myself wanting this are usually those where the "LaTeX way of doing things" (as far as I can tell from looking at library code, etc.) is long and unholy chains of \expandafters. If I was going to program a library, I'd definitely do this instead of rely on this kind of utility for the sake of efficiency. But for little one-off tweaks and features, this kind of ultimate versatility is very attractive.
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| Aug 24, 2022 at 21:49 | history | answered | Marijn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |