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In article <repasky.715398745@sun.bdc.ubc.ca>, repasky@bdc.ubc.ca (Dick Repasky) writes...
>I would like to write a macro that reserves registers and assigns them 
>names using pararmeters passed to the macro. For example, a call such
>as \doit{zork} would be expanded so that the result was \newinsert\bigzork.
>I've made the following attempt:
> 
>    \def\doit#1{\expandafter\newinsert\csname big#1\endcsname}
> 
>and I receive the error that \newinsert is a forbidden command sequence in
>a macro definition.  Does anyone have advice?

The problem is that \newinsert etc are defined "\outer".  There are two 
solutions:

1) redefine \newinsert the same way, but without the \outer.
   (The definition is short.  See plain.tex)

2) define \innernewinsert:
      \edef\innernewinsert{\noexpand\newinsert}
   The \noexpand hides the outerness.

Donald Arseneau        asnd@reg.triumf.ca