X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil]
	["541" "Tue" "7" "July" "1998" "13:09:18" "+0100" "David Carlisle" "davidc@NAG.CO.UK" nil "16" "Re: L3PL: blank line after \\usepackage" "^Date:" nil nil "7" nil nil nil nil nil]
	nil)
Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1])
	by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00519;
	Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:03:16 +0200 (MET DST)
Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <3.72883CEA@listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:03:14 +0200
Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE
          (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 381317 for
          LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:03:09 +0200
Received: from nag.co.uk (andover.nag.co.uk [192.156.217.113]) by
          relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18292 for
          <LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:02:50 +0200
          (MET DST)
Received: (from davidc@localhost) by nag.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA23413; Tue,
          7 Jul 1998 13:09:18 +0100
References: <199807020724.RAA19706@ricetub.anu.edu.au>
            <199807021940.VAA01123@frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de>
            <199807070855.JAA23201@nag.co.uk>
            <199807071151.NAA17375@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Message-ID:  <199807071209.NAA23413@nag.co.uk>
Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project
              <LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
In-Reply-To:  <199807071151.NAA17375@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> (mjd@AMS.ORG)
Date:         Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:09:18 +0100
From: David Carlisle <davidc@NAG.CO.UK>
Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project
              <LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L
              <LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject:      Re: L3PL: blank line after \usepackage
Status: R
X-Status: 
X-Keywords:                  
X-UID: 2658

> For what it's worth, when writing packages and such I have acquired
> the habit of putting a \relax after all the commands that have
> trailing option lookahead,

In general this is good advice but in this case....

In one of the iterations of these packages after they got announced at
TUG97 and before they got released, I did just that.

But if some brave soul runs with [removeoldnames] then \relax isn't
defined and so the package dies on \relax.

That's why the ones currently distributed have \par where
something is needed.

David