On 2018-01-31 09:54, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Rik Kabel schrieb:
\starttexdefinition doTableRowExpB #SET
    \define\A{\getvariable{#SET}{a}}
    \define\B{\getvariable{#SET}{b}}
    \define\C{\getvariable{#SET}{c}}
    \bTR
      \expanded{\bTC\A\eTC}
      \expanded{\bTC\B\eTC}
      \expanded{\bTC\C\eTC}
    \eTR
\stoptexdefinition

You can’t use \define but it creates non expandable commands
(which can be solved when you use \defineexpandable instead)
and there is no need for this extra step.

\starttexdefinition doTableRowExpB #SET
    \bTR
      \expanded{\bTC\getvariable{#SET}{a}\eTC}
      \expanded{\bTC\getvariable{#SET}{b}\eTC}
      \expanded{\bTC\getvariable{#SET}{c}\eTC}
    \eTR
\stoptexdefinition

Wolfgang
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Great. This does the job, and allows assigning more semantically-meaningful names to the elements.

\starttexdefinition doTableRowExpB #SET
    \defineexpandable\A{\getvariable{#SET}{a}}
    \defineexpandable\B{\getvariable{#SET}{b}}
    \defineexpandable\C{\getvariable{#SET}{c}}
    \bTR
      \expanded{\bTC\A\eTC}
      \expanded{\bTC\B\eTC}
      \expanded{\bTC\C\eTC}
    \eTR
\stoptexdefinition

I see no performance difference on a much larger test, and I think that the readability is improved (and thus the opportunity for simple mistakes) when the hundreds of \getvariable macros are refactored into a few macro definitions.

Thank you once again.

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Rik