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Date:         Tue, 8 Feb 1994 15:14:18 GMT
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
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Subject:      Re: A philosophical question about packages and options
Status: R

Dean Ayres
  There's no reason why mjplet could not be a class which calls
  somas which calls letter. (except that you might run out of memory).

The first release of 2e had a `feature' that if you nested
RequirePackage and similar commands more than about 3 times you hit
TeX's parameter stack limit, and crashed.

In the new release, nesting packages or classes like this will have no
effect on the parameter stack. But of course the more files you load,
typically the more main memory you will use up. TeX has a second limit
on the level to which \input's may be nested which is typically
(always?) 16 .

David