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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: removing \outerness (was: \lowercase error)
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Date: 8 Jan 91 02:37:43 GMT
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xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes:

>The \outer does all harm but no good? 
>Why should Knuth have defined it? and carried along with TeX3.0 distribution?

The idea behing \outer is sensible. It's just that Knuth chose to
make some macros (\newetcetera) \outer that he shouldn't have.
In LaTeX these macros are redefined to be non-\outer.
Note that LaTeX has first the \outer definitions, and then
the redefinition withouth \outer. Talking of efficiency.

Victor.