On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> Xan wrote:
>
>  Really, I did not know that. It's a messy thing that we could not define
>> what we like ;-)
>>
>
> it's the nature of a tex macro package; ok, i can add some strict testing
> for in in mkiv but even then it might just be that someone who knows th
> einternals (like wolfgang or wolfgang or wolfgang) wants to overload
> something built in by something better
>
why not discipline ?

I mean something like
0) context macro are ok
1) \usemodule[foo] are ok (no collision with macros in 0)
2) define your macros inside
\startPrivate[namespace]
...
\stopPrivate
3) explicit  redefinition of macros in 0,1

by 3) should be no collision between 0,1,2


-- 
luigi