Re: Counters in Lout

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 22:14:31 +0400, Paul K. Efremov wrote:

> Is there any easy way to program counters in Lout, so that they'd
> work like those in LaTeX? ...  Note that in LaTeX you can add
> arbitrary values to counters, and more importantly, use them *in any
> place of the document* regardless of its structure.

Lout uses a lazy functional language.  The definitive property of a
functional langauge is referential transparency - which is a fancy way
of saying that there are no variables in the language, no mutable
objects.

You might want to look at, say, theorem counter (in dsf).

SY, Uwe
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