On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 20:17:56 +1100
"G. Branden Robinson" wrote:
> We can either:
> * Use a nonstandard allocator; or
> * Handle exceptions.
Hi Brandon,
If it's C++, you have only one choice: handle exceptions. Otherwise,
you're using so little of the language that you might as well use C.
Ulrich Lauther wrote:
> > .de Pos
> > \R'foo (\\n[.d]-\\n[.v]*254+1)/72000'\\n[foo]mm/10
> > ..
> >
> > which allows you to enter
> >
> > position: \n[.d] units, \*[Pos].
> >
>
> Wow! Works nicely.
>
> But why is "R" escaped only once? \\R works too.
> And I had to add a line ".sp -1v" at
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 12:19:09PM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021, Ulrich Lauther wrote:
> > Is there a trick to make a macro or string return a value?
>
> > The only solution I found looks like this:
> >
> > .de Pos END
> > .nr foo (\\n[.d]u-\\[.v]u)*254+1)/
