[texhax] "@" : vowel or glottal stop ? (was : Some puzzling TeX)

[Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Paul Isambert wrote:

> And a mix with the underscore is better yet, in my
> opinion, following the pattern: \<pre>@<mac>_<sub>, where <pre> is a
> prefix unique to the package (or file), <mac> is the main macro and
> <sub> an internal sub macro. E.g.:

> \xxx at dosomething_this
> \xxx at dosomething_that

How could I possibly disagree : this is the exact pattern
used by VMS :

	LIB$GET_COMMAND
	LIB$COMPRESS_NODENAME
	MTH$ACOS_R4

and so on.  There can, by definition, be nothing more logical.
	
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