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At 11:27 +1000 98/06/23, Richard Walker wrote:
>Hans Aberg writes:
> >   So here, they way I see it, the long names (1) are only used really in
> > order to keep the code straight and avoid code clashes. The user
> > (preferably also developers) should only need to use short names by various
> > of simplifying schemes; this is (2) then. But non-local names should expand
> > to long names.
>
>Hmm . . . this is the exact opposite of what I was suggesting.
>Developers use the long names to make it easier to write; these get
>translated by docstrip/doc.sty into short names to minimize format
>size and control sequence usage.  Still no word from the Team as to
>whether this matters for LaTeX3.

  This is an idea I did not think of. But I think we are speaking about
different things here: By "long names", I thought of names with a sequence
of module separators \foo/bar/.../blah, and short names abbreviations used
locally by the user working in a local context which does not have those
mpodule separators, or not as many of them.

  But I am not sure what translation procedure you think of: The reason of
using a long name like \environment/begin instead of say \envir/begin would
be to ensure this name does not clash with other names. If one wants to
shorten those names, it wiuld be better to define a module named `envir'
right away.

  Hans Aberg
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