Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:22:11 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n78DMDCG026691 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:22:13 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n78DGZrD026067 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:16:36 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n789Vwsk009623; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:16:28 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 297688 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:16:28 +0200 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n78DGRfl014782 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:16:27 +0200 Received: from lon1-post-1.mail.demon.net (lon1-post-1.mail.demon.net [195.173.77.148]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n78DGEm0009351 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:16:18 +0200 Received: from morningstar2.demon.co.uk ([80.176.134.7] helo=[192.168.0.4]) by lon1-post-1.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) id 1MZlmQ-0004OC-Xo for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:16:14 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4A7D7AA3.9030309@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 14:16:19 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Joseph Wright Subject: Should \ExplSyntax(On/Off) be \protected? To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -6.599 () BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Aug 2009 13:22:11.0854 (UTC) FILETIME=[3CF092E0:01CA182B] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5839 Hello all, Looking at some code related to building "latex3.ltx" (as an experiment), I notice that \ExplSyntax(On/Off) are not \protected. The plan is that all *user* functions should be robust, but how do people see this with design functions (not only the case in hand, but anything else using mixed upper- and lower-case)? -- Joseph Wright