[luatex] macros to invoke lua in LaTeX

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Thu Mar 5 23:25:35 CET 2009


Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> The point is that there is software written at a time with
> a known set of command names from the engines.
> Now the engines evolve further and introduces new command names.
> This can lead to name clashes, because the engine developer
> cannot know all software that is based on the engine to avoid them.
> Prefixing helps to reduce the probability of such name clashes.
> With reserved prefixes they can even be avoided.

Let's have this discussion again at the time of the luatex 1.00
release.

Best wishes,
Taco


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