[luatex] incompatible change to mathcode

[Hans Hagen]

On 1/19/2013 6:04 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 04:29:05PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 9-5-2012 16:02, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On May 9, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>>
>>>> Now that you bring it, do we really need the old aleph variants? They
>>>> don't seem to be used anywhere in my full TL installation, so there is
>>>> no case of backward compatibility and I see no practical need for them
>>>> when we have the new Unicode variants. I'd rather remove them completely
>>>> and simplify the code.
>>>
>>> Personally, I also see little point in the aleph versions of the math char/delimiter
>>> primitives. I am reluctant to remove them right away, but as far as I am concerned
>>> they can be marked as deprecated. Objections are welcome, of course.
>>
>> I bet no one uses those primitives. Let's just kick 'm out. The sam
>> eis true for \Aleph* and \Omega* unless we get reports that someone
>> really tests for those version numbers (and why).
>
> What about removing them in SVN now? With Lua 5.2 and everything it
> seems like a good time for such a change :)
>
> If there is no objection, I'll go ahead and do it.

just go ahead ... even the few who uses them can write macros to replace 
them

Hans

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