[texhax] strange problem with a sty file and \catcode

[Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Uwe Lueck wrote:

> What Phil Taylor may like (or he certainly would have suggested it if he had already looked at this): You can place a \relax right after the mandatory argument of \usepackage to get around this funny problem. The documentation of the new package should tell something like this.


To be honest, I decided (a) I didn't understand enough of the
LaTeX-specific stuff to really know what was going on, and (b)
I couldn't see Vafa's rational for needing such an apparently
complex solution (OK, \new$command has a nice VMS-ish ring
to it, and \new$command_whatever even more so, but even as
a VMS freak I baulk at trying to making TeX look like DCL !).

So I decided to let someone else worry about this one :-)

** Phil.