Re: serious flaw of @c

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I don't know any way to make a comment character in texinfo.tex,
> i.e., a way to say \let\foo=%.  Do you?

Hmm, I've never thought about that.  And since comment removal works
before macro expansion (at least I think so), I believe it's
impossible.

> There are no characters available to make be catcode 14, as far as
> I've ever been able to think of.

In my CJK package, I use character code 0x7F for various purposes
since this is not used anywhere else, in no encoding.  So adding

  \catcode "7F=14

somewhere in texinfo.tex would make this character available as a
comment character for all encodings (save EBCDIC) -- without *any*
problems.  What do you think?

> Lilypond and/or groff are continually stretching Texinfo to its
> utter limits and I think you have just surpassed them.

Hehe.

> Forgetting about the current @macro stupidity, can you think of a
> different design for macros altogether that would be alleviate these
> issues?

Do you mean a different design of handling the current @macro syntax,
or a complete new way of designing macros?


    Werner