Re: Make \header blocks tangible in Scheme (issue 296600043 by address@hidden)

[thomasmorley65]

On 2016/06/28 17:29:19, dak wrote:
> On 2016/06/28 17:09:04, thomasmorley651 wrote:
> > Can't review the code.
> > From description: very nice.
> >
> > Though, I'm not sure to which grade coding (with) header-expressions
will be
> > extended.

> Complete?  Try finding something that doesn't work.

Grabbed the code from here and did some testing.
From the experimental/empirical approach:
Looks _great_ to me!
Up to now I've not found a single bit of a disadvantage or limitation


> > Meaning, how about an entry in changes and/or snippets?

> Changes, regtests, snippets, documentation.  All that would be
warranted and
> required, turning this from a 60-line change to a 1000-line change,
and that's
> before translations.  But that's not the main problem for me.  The
main problem
> is that the feature itself is straightforward and obvious, but
examples and
> descriptions are arbitrary and there are thousands of different ways
to tell the
> story.

> And whatever way I pick is sure to be substantially rewritten anyway.
So it's a
> bit of a fight for me to muster the energy for the first shot at it.

Most useful for the average user will be the now available possibility
to store a header in a variable.
I'd say at least this feature _needs_ an entry in changes.



https://codereview.appspot.com/296600043/