On 04/02/10 20:16:48, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > [...] but live in fear that I have accidentally overridden > > some tremendously important macro in a package that I am > > about to use. > > You can guard yourself against accidentally overwriting > existing macros by building a wrapper around "de" which > tests whether the name to be defined already exists: > > .rn de de! > .de! de > .ie d\\$1 .ab Will not redefine existing "\\$1". Aborting... > .el .de! \\$* > ..
Very neat. Thank you. Of course, that is a pretty drastic solution -- definitely a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water. :-) Robert The reward of suffering is experience. -- Aeschylus
