On Saturday 04 October 2008 12:15:40 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > What do you expect? Current reality is that troff bombs out > > > with > > > > > > xxx:7: fatal error: input stack limit exceeded (probable > > > infinite loop) > > > > I didn't expect this, and set out writing this email to say it > > was wrong, but having thought about it, it's understandable.
I discovered this behaviour, in not quite so dramatic form, when I was developing pdfmark.tmac; in my case, I didn't introduce unintentional recursion, but I did find that redefining either of a pair of mutual aliases affected both. That seemed natural to me, at the time. > Yeah. Here is my addition to the documentation of .als in the info > file: It is good to clarify this, in the documentation; just one very minor nit... > The definition of macro `bar' replaces the old object this > name is linked to. However, the alias to `foo' is still active! > With other words, ... "With other words" is a direct translation of the German idiom. It seems stilted in English, where the idiomatically correct expression is "In other words". Regards, Keith.
