[tex-live] error in supp-pdf.mkii again?

[Taco Hoekwater]

Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Do, 11 Mär 2010, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Hans chose \undefined, and I don't think using a more bizarre one will
>> actually solve anything.
> 
> Well, something like
> \makeatletter
> \ifx\writestatus\@undefined@
> ...
> \makeatother
> would probably protect against these errors, I mean, isn't it still
> good practice to use some @ in internal command names ...

This is purely a LaTeX convention.

> Or some \let\@original...
> 
> As for now I can imagine *many* usages of \undefined as normal command,

Well, in one-and-a-half decades of \undefined, you are the first
person to run into this and complain (there could be more that
didn't complain, of course). But I'll talk it over with Hans.

Best wishes,
Taco