Michael J. Downes, [log in to unmask], wrote >It is perhaps of interest to note that unless the tex.pool file is >changed, \tex_global:D will be reported in the log file as >"{\global}", \scan_stop: will be reported as "{\relax}", and so >on. Perhaps e-TeX can provide something useful here for making name >changes in some way easier than retangling tex.web. (You can just edit >the .pool file, of course---I have done it myself in the past---but >then you have to go to some nontrivial extra trouble if you want to >synchronize the checksums.) And \meaning and \show, so making debugging a lot harder, except if you know the TeX equivalence. (Again! See one of my previous messages where I said: >...see the unmatched brace. A bit tricky but clear when you are using TeX; >with \let:NN is not so clear what are you doing -- except when you learn >its TeX equivalence!...) IMHO, this makes a very strong case _against_ renaming the TeX primitives. Regards Javier