Will Robertson wrote:

> While we're discussing terminology, is there any overarching reason that
> global and local variables have their scope as a prefix \g_ or \l_ ? (My
> reason for asking being that I would slightly prefer something like
> \module_name_l_tlp or something thereabouts, but I'm not really fussed.)

My thinking was that \l_<module>... makes it easy to see a variable in a
load of \<module> functions.
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Joseph Wright