On 2009-03-07 11:41:20 +1030, Reinhard Kotucha
<[email protected]> said:
There had been a discussion about namespaces on the LaTeX-3 mailing
list a few years ago. It was Hans Aberg who proposed namespaces, if I
remember correctly. As far as I remember, he had not been able to
convince the LaTeX team. I don't remember the details. If you are
interested, dig out the mail archives.
I haven't been too successful finding the relevant thread. I remember
Philip Lehman proposed a "poor man's namespace" for packages, but
that's not really the same thing.
What LaTeX3 does currently is to rename all engine primitives to remove
them from the user namespace.
E.g.,
\write -> \tex_write:D
\protected -> \etex_protected:D
\pdfstrcmp -> \pdf_strcmp:D
So as far as LaTeX3 is concerned, it doesn't matter what the primitives
are called :) But that's no help to the problem at hand.
Will
