Will Robertson wrote: > 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
Where the ”:D“ means ”don‘t touch, these are primitives“, for the reader who is not familiar with LaTeX3. They‘re not funny smileys added by Will… Arno
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