At 10:54 PM 6/20/2002 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:

>the \dododododdodosomething irritate you. They are just Hans' way of
>keeping the source obscure.

more a matter of namespacing -)

>Just seen something like this:
>
>\def\dodogetargument#1################################1#2%
>
>got it? This is why I think that reading any not trivial TeX code is
>rather difficult. (Well, Forth is even worse :)

actually, such deeply nested args are seldom used; this is one of the few 
occasions where it cannot be avoided since #1 and #2 are delimiters 
(potential speedup: replace #1 by [ and #2 by ])

Hans
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