Re: /dev/null as LaTeX environemt: How???

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From: Jonathan Fine
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 00:00

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Daniel Luecking <luecking@comp.uark.edu> writes
>A roll-your-own solution is 
>\newenvironment{null}{\iffalse}{\fi}

I don't think so.  TeX will never get to see the \fi, because when it is
skipping tokens (looking for the \fi) it is not expanding macros.  So
the \end{null}, that contains the \fi, is skipped, not expanded!

So what you'll get if you use this null environment is that TeX will
give you a missing \fi error at the end of the file!

This is an example for the "steep learning curve" thread elsewhere on
this newsgroup.

Jonathan Fine, Cambridge, UK
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Date: 1999/09/02
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