Re: [NTG-pdftex] \pdfprimitive

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 07:53:52PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:

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2007/4/6, Philip & Le Khanh :

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rather than just PDF primitives ... If this is the case, is there any chance of a better choice of name in a future release ?

Would you prefer a pdfTeX version that suddenly has a primitive \foo thus potentially breaking all documents already providing \foo ? :-)

if a document provides \foo, then a nw primitive \foo is never seen because the document obscures it; actually, the user won't even notice;

If the document uses \newcommand, then the user will get an error. If the user uses a package that uses the new foo, this package will probably break. ...

only when a macro package uses \foo there could be a problem but that's seldom the user's concern

Some will generate bug reports that could have been avoided in the first place. Yours sincerely Heiko --