On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:28:44AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:

> Do you know of a single document that would fail if e-TeX was used?

Yes, documents with french.sty will break.
If I remember correctly, the reason is a name clash with \beginL.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <[log in to unmask]>