[dev-context] appendtoks / csname

[Hans Hagen]

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I look for a convient way to use \appendtoks with a token list
> which is accessed with \csname ... \endcsname, e.g.
> 
>   \appendtoks <something> \to\csname <mytoks>\endcsname
> 
> 
> This works when I enclose the \csname/\endcsname pair in braces
> 
>   \appendtoks <something> \to{\csname <mytoks>\endcsname}
> 
> but this did not look very pleasant to my eyes.
> 
> 
> I thought something similar to \addvalue would be nice
> 
>   \addtoks{<mytoks>}{<something>}

actually, i'm considering an extra set but with a different syntax, like

\appendtotoks\name{...} which sometimes saves passing an argument

but there is some trickery in the current macros that keeps {} that 
needs to be preserved; also, on the luatex agenda is an append primitive 
so we need to cleanup this bit anyway

i'll give it a thought

Hans


-----------------------------------------------------------------
                                           Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE
               Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
      tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
                                              | www.pragma-pod.nl
-----------------------------------------------------------------