"cave laqueum!"



> Maybe, but we should also systematically recommend and document the 
> load("name") form rather than load(name).

Thank you, I think I will stick to that.  Paths to, and names of, files 
typically are strings, and using quotes minimizes the error rate, and 
constructs like load("d:\\mypackages\\package1") to load package1.mac 
works, as well.