Will Robertson

I hesitate to bring this up as I have been meaning to add the following to `l3build` for some time now... I get around your problem using a bunch of...

@josephwright — Would it be that crazy to simply interpret any numerical input that doesn't match a filename be re-interpreted as an index? Like you say would need something like...

Fine with me. It never occurs to me that people might run new code on old distributions...

That’s an interesting idea — the lookahead would be fine if the list of acceptable things that can be patched is just a few \cs_new/set style commands. Probably in fontspec...

I think so, yes — my original intention was to bring this up as part of the l3build lua code, and Bruno started discussing more broadly. I’ll try to prototype...

I forgot I put this into the issue tracker. Looking at the date I'm not surprised I forgot. On @FrankMittelbach's comment, I take it you mean that you could have...

That’s probably the best solution — no extra complication to any interfaces and a sensible default.

If xparse were to provide any support here, I think it should be at quite a low level but with appropriate hooks to define more useful packages like fancyvrb. So...

For what it's worth I'm seeing the same thing (`ruby 2.4.2p198 (2017-09-14 revision 59899) [x86_64-darwin17]`.

Oh, I didn’t realise it was so historic — totally understandable then. Thanks for the quick reply. I really like the idea of the package, but no promise of getting...