Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why.

[Werner LEMBERG]

> as I have suspected, and it happens because the number of arguments
> passed to `pdf*pop' (in the second call) is larger than 1000 or so
> (in the variable `pdf:href.map.internal').  The message is
> misleading for the normal user, but internally macro arguments are
> indeed pushed onto a stack (function `interpolate_arg' in
> input.cpp).

I wonder whether your current implementation is optimal.  Wouldn't it
be better to create pseudo-arrays (i.e., `foo-1', `foo-2', ...),
passing indices to the recursive macro calls, instead of a very long
string which has to be parsed into single arguments again and again?


    Werner