Re: [Groff] names in groff -- was: Another hdtbl patch

2010-02-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I'm thinking groff needs the concept of namespace . I don't think so. This concept is not very meaningful for something which gets interpreted at runtime. The only benefit would be that you can shorten the macro names slightly. However, groff still had to look up the real macro names, whic

Re: [Groff] names in groff -- was: Another hdtbl patch

2010-02-05 Thread walter harms
Mike Bianchi schrieb: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:11:59PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >>> No macro, register, or string name within standard macro >>> packages will ever end in * . Thus all user created names >>> that end in * will never collide with any within the standard >>>