Aditya Mahajan wrote:
When I started using context, I was surprised that context did not have
anything for optional arguments. We could have something like
\definesinglearugment\foo[#1]#2{...}
to be equal to
\def\foo{\dosingleargument\dofoo}
\def\dofoo[#1]#2{...}
and
\definesingleempty\foo[#1]#2{...]
to be equal to
\def\foo{\dosingleempty\dofoo}
\def\dofoo[#1]#2{...}
and similar things for \definedoublearugment, \definetripleargument,
etc. I am not convinced that this is a good thing, but using something
like this in the core may result in a 10% reduction in the code size and
might kill a few dodos :)
there is \definecomplexorsimple
anyhow, it does not save commands and does not reduce the code size as
you still need the intermediates; it might increase the format
generation time with a few millisec
Hans
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