Good day to all of you :)

The %- macro doesn't work, that's for starters:

%-this
%- should be
%- in one line

results in:

this
 should be
 in one line


Then, there's a problem with the %INCLUDE macro. When an included file ends
with a macro - and NO new line or anything after it - the text after the
inclusion gets appended AND EVALUATED. Suppose the file macro.txt contains
"(this is included)%FROM":

%INCLUDE="macro.txt"="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
%INCLUDE="macro.txt"NAME

This ends up as a %FROM="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and %FROMNAME. I agree that the
sole "%FROM" is useless in an included file, but if for example I wanted to
include a file containing a %OFROMNAME macro and append "let" to it (to
turn a sender "Frog" into "Froglet") I'd end up with a %OFROMNAMElet macro,
which of course doesn't exist.

So, I think that the inclusion of a file should terminate all macros at the
point they're located at the end of the file. This could easily be done by
a special "%+" macro, which would essentially do NOTHING, just simulate a
non-existant space. In other words, %OFROMNAMElet won't make a "Froglet"
out of a "Frog", but a %OFROMNAME%+let will. How about that?

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