\\currentdate 
Neat solution, worked without a hitch. Now I have to remember this for future use ...

dr. Hans van der Meer


On 24 Jun 2020, at 21:10, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:

On 6/24/2020 9:00 PM, Hans van der Meer wrote:
How can the crash in the minimal example here be explained? And is there a solution to avoid this and make the crash going away "without having to jump through special hoops"?
because \currentdate is a macro thatv does some magic ... it's nor fully expandable

so, lua sees \currentdate == \c as first escaped character coming in and that's invalid (\\currentdate would work)

just try

print("\come on") in pure lua

Hans


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