Re: [Dev-luatex] new primitives

2016-05-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/6/2016 11:01 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, On 05 May 2016, at 12:26, Hans Hagen wrote: \appto, \preto, \apptocmd,... I think primitves would be much more faster and trustworthy. Like Hans said: I think speed improvements are just wishful thinking. It is hard to beat the TeX language

Re: [Dev-luatex] new primitives

2016-05-06 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, > On 05 May 2016, at 12:26, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> \appto, \preto, \apptocmd,... I think primitves would be much more >> faster and trustworthy. > Like Hans said: I think speed improvements are just wishful thinking. It is hard to beat the TeX language speed significantly from compiled C c

Re: [Dev-luatex] new primitives

2016-05-05 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/4/2016 10:29 PM, linuxss Stonys wrote: Hi, I saw you are implementing new primitives such as appending to token list. This is interesting idea and I wander could you implement more new useful primitives like \appenddef, \prependdef where it would add something at begin or at the end of macro

[Dev-luatex] new primitives

2016-05-05 Thread linuxss Stonys
Hi, I saw you are implementing new primitives such as appending to token list. This is interesting idea and I wander could you implement more new useful primitives like \appenddef, \prependdef where it would add something at begin or at the end of macro. And where you should not care about commands