Re: spaces after command name

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:00:01PM -0700, Karl Berry wrote:
>     overall, I don't think
>     that we should be too concerned with those constructs.
> 
> I fully agree.  I am only concerned with "first level lexical" spaces,
> ie, actually occurring in the sources.
> 
>   IGNORE_SPACE_BEFORE_BRACE
> 
> Custvar sounds good, but for its name, how about:
> IGNORE_SPACE_AFTER_COMMAND_NAME
> 
> Since 1) that is what TeX is doing, and
> 2) there are bare braces in @defun and space-handling there shouldn't be
> affected.  Ok?

Ok for 2), but space is always ignored similarly for @-commands with
arguments on the line, and for other @-commands spaces may or may not be
ignored whatever this value, for example for @noindent or @insertcopying.
So maybe even more correct would be

IGNORE_SPACE_AFTER_BRACE_COMMAND_NAME

Ok?

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Pat