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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/source/latex/l3kernel/l3clist.dtx b/Master/texmf-dist/source/latex/l3kernel/l3clist.dtx index 8825e0c6dab..a89220df2eb 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/source/latex/l3kernel/l3clist.dtx +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/source/latex/l3kernel/l3clist.dtx @@ -43,17 +43,21 @@ % }^^A % } % -% \date{Released 2018-04-30} +% \date{Released 2018-05-12} % % \maketitle % % \begin{documentation} % % Comma lists contain ordered data where items can be added to the left -% or right end of the list. The features of this data type largely -% overlap with those of the sequence data type, for instance applying a -% function to every item, removing duplicate items, extracting a given -% item, using the comma list with specified separators, and so on. +% or right end of the list. This data type allows basic list +% manipulations such as adding/removing items, applying a function to +% every item, removing duplicate items, extracting a given item, using +% the comma list with specified separators, and so on. Sequences +% (defined in \pkg{l3seq}) are safer, faster, and provide more features, +% so they should often be preferred to comma lists. Comma lists are +% mostly useful when interfacing with \LaTeXe{} or other code that +% expects or provides comma list data. % % Several items can be added at once. To ease input of comma lists from % data provided by a user outside an \cs{ExplSyntaxOn} \ldots{} @@ -81,9 +85,7 @@ % or ends with a space, or is a single brace group), surround it with % braces. % -% Comma lists are particularly useful when implementing user interfaces, -% or when interfacing with \LaTeXe{} or other code that expects or -% provides comma list data. Almost all operations on comma lists are +% Almost all operations on comma lists are % noticeably slower than those on sequences so converting the data to % sequences using \cs{seq_set_from_clist:Nn} (see \pkg{l3seq}) may be % advisable if speed is important. The exception is that |