Joseph Wright writes: > 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. precisely, it is a very good indicator within the code and also if you look for a variable then there is a single place (l_ for local g_ for global) in the index to look, very useful in my experience. I wouldn't want to miss that. it makes variables nicely separated from functions in both places frank