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From: Joseph Wright <joseph.wright@MORNINGSTAR2.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Key points of LaTex3
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Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> In theory. In practice, you can or sometimes even must have some stuff
> before \documentclass/\documenttype.
> Example:
> \RequirePackage{cmap}% before the class loads fonts
> \documentclass{myclass}
> 
> Yours sincerely
>   Heiko <oberdiek@uni-freiburg.de>
> 

I thought about that, but I was trying to keep things simple-ish. Some
cases like this might be covered, but there will always be problems with
a major change.
-- 
Joseph Wright