Re: BR 1582430: Allow numbers with leading + or - for %ifnum

> >> What's your usage case?
> >
> > A multi-line macro which did a quick %IFNUM test
at
> > the beginning, and handed the arg off to more
clever
> > processing if it wasn't a straightforward number
(that
> > is, a single number token).
> >
> > With your change, that %IFNUM now interprets
"+ n"
> > as a number, but subsequent code then fails since
it
> > is being presented with three tokens rather than
just
> > a single number token.
>
> Could you elucidate what that "subsequent
code" looks like?

It attempts concatenation of what it believes to be a number
token
with something else... which now fails.

Perhaps these kinds of changes shouldn't be applied right
before
a release is cut? Just a suggestion.

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anonymous coward wrote:
> 
> It attempts concatenation of what it believes to be a
number token
> with something else... which now fails.
> 
> Perhaps these kinds of changes shouldn't be applied
right before
> a release is cut? Just a suggestion.
> 

Well, I'm considering pulling the release (cutting is one
thing, 
uploading is another)... however, the big problem I've seen
is that 
stabilization periods don't seem to get much attention and
therefore 
really don't help much.

The second thing is that we really don't have much of mine
(or, really, 
anyone else's) time, and what time there is tends to be
highly bursty.

It sounds like your use case really wants a %iftoken,
something that can 
tell you if something is a single pasteable token or not.

	-hpa

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