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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Hi Amit,

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Amit Dubey wrote:
>     I am using an external scheme script, and I need to make sure that
> a <reference|...> command is evaluated before the result is sent as
> an argument.  Alternatively, I would like to execute the <reference|...>
> from the scheme script itself.
>
>     E.g. what I have is:
>
> <assign|myfunc|<macro|x|<extern|scheme-func|<reference|<arg|x>>>>>
>
>     And I'd like "scheme-func" to receive the result of "reference"
> rather than the tree <reference|...>

The tree "reference" *is* evaluated, but to itself...
In general, if you yant to force evaluation,
you may use the "quasi" and "unquote" primitives.

This is actually a bug (well, a small one, since this was not
needed by anyone until recently): the "reference" primitive is
only evaluated by the typesetter, not by the macro language.
I probably did that so, because the typesetter also adds
a hyperlink. I will correct this bug as soon as possible.
Please remind if I forget to do so for the next version.

Best wishes, Joris