[texhax] Force double expansion ?
Philip Taylor
P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Wed Jul 16 21:40:29 CEST 2014
When peeking ahead using \futurelet, the expansion of the token to be
peeked at can be forced using a simple chain of \expandafters, as in :
\expandafter \futurelet
\expandafter \nexttok
\expandafter\analysenexttok
such that if (for example) the following token were \whatever,
and if its expansion were \csname, then \analysenexttok would identify
\nexttok as \csname and not as \whatever. But suppose that that were
not sufficient : suppose that one wanted \nexttok to be \futurelet not
to \csname, but rather to the /expansion/ of \csname ...\endcsname
(assuming that the following code were well-formed). Then how might
that be forced ? It is important to note that that only the first-level
expansion of \csname ...\endcsname is required, so \edef (for example)
is not an option.
Philip Taylor
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