Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
Oh, great. The pdf prefix was very counter-intuitive in front of some
primitives, such as \primitive indeed.
If I remember correctly, the original idea was to add "pdf" in front
of all the primitives that were particular to pdfTeX, and it thus meant
"pdfTeX" and not "PDF", at least originally (am I right?) But it is
indeed not the most intuitive naming convention.
it was mostly to avoid clashes with existing macro names but even then
it's not needed as one can save the meaning of new primitives under
names that make sense for the specific macro package anyway
Hans
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