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Recall from <a class="ref" href="Invoking-Requests.html">Invoking Requests</a> that any quantity of spaces between arguments to requests +serves only to separate them; leading spaces in <var class="var">anything</var> are thus +not seen. <var class="var">anything</var> effectively <em class="emph">cannot</em> be omitted; if +<var class="var">cond-expr</var> is true and <var class="var">anything</var> is empty, the newline at the +end of the control line is interpreted as a blank input line (and +therefore a blank text line). +</p> +<div class="example"> +<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted">super\c +tanker +.nr force-word-break 1 +super\c +.if ((\n[force-word-break] = 1) & \n[.int]) +tanker + ⇒ supertanker super tanker +</pre></div></div> +</dd></dl> + +<dl class="first-deffn"> +<dt class="deffn" id="index-_002enop"><span class="category-def">Request: </span><span><strong class="def-name"><code class="t">.nop</code></strong> <var class="def-var-arguments">anything</var><a class="copiable-link" href='#index-_002enop'> ¶</a></span></dt> +<dd><a class="index-entry-id" id="index-nop"></a> +<p>Interpret <var class="var">anything</var> as if it were an input line. This is similar +to ‘<samp class="samp">.if 1</samp>’. <code class="code">nop</code> is not really “no operation”; its +argument <em class="emph">is</em> processed—unconditionally. It can be used to cause +text lines to share indentation with surrounding control lines. +</p> +<div class="example"> +<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted">.als real-MAC MAC +.de wrapped-MAC +. tm MAC: called with arguments \\$@ +. nop \\*[real-MAC]\\ +.. +.als MAC wrapped-MAC +\# Later... +.als MAC real-MAC +</pre></div></div> + +<p>In the above, we’ve used aliasing, <code class="code">nop</code>, and the interpolation of +a macro as a string to interpose a wrapper around the macro ‘<samp class="samp">MAC</samp>’ +(perhaps to debug it). +</p></dd></dl> + + +</div> +<hr> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Next: <a href="if_002delse.html">if-else</a>, Previous: <a href="Operators-in-Conditionals.html">Operators in Conditionals</a>, Up: <a href="Conditionals-and-Loops.html">Conditionals and Loops</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Request-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |