Seeking tricky WML examples
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Re: Seeking tricky WML examples
Expanding a macro inside a string (inside quotes) that contains itself quotes is specifically made an error. So it's not that the macro is expanded and the result is somehow invalid. You cannot get this error without a macro expansion.
I would guess that was done to prevent confusion with quotes inside and outside macros. Though I'm not sure it really helps. It breaks the simple concept of macro expansion just being text replacement and you can get confusion with quotes in macros either way.
To me this seems like something that would be better to remove. Of course that will not fix the formula example. It will break in other ways. But if you think about macro expansion as just text replacement it makes sense at least IMO.
I would guess that was done to prevent confusion with quotes inside and outside macros. Though I'm not sure it really helps. It breaks the simple concept of macro expansion just being text replacement and you can get confusion with quotes in macros either way.
To me this seems like something that would be better to remove. Of course that will not fix the formula example. It will break in other ways. But if you think about macro expansion as just text replacement it makes sense at least IMO.
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