[NTG-context] explain please

[Hans van der Meer]

\\currentdate 
Neat solution, worked without a hitch. Now I have to remember this for future use ...

dr. Hans van der Meer


> On 24 Jun 2020, at 21:10, Hans Hagen <j.hagen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 6/24/2020 9:00 PM, Hans van der Meer wrote:
>> How can the crash in the minimal example here be explained? And is there a solution to avoid this and make the crash going away "without having to jump through special hoops"?
> because \currentdate is a macro thatv does some magic ... it's nor fully expandable
> 
> so, lua sees \currentdate == \c as first escaped character coming in and that's invalid (\\currentdate would work)
> 
> just try
> 
> print("\come on") in pure lua
> 
> Hans
> 
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