[texhax] read argument until EOL

[Uwe Lueck]

I really wondered about \uccode/\uppercase where LaTeX has 
\lccode/\lowercase ... 
could you please explain the joke to the rest of us? 
Looks like a nice lesson on TeX! -- Uwe.

[Phil originally:]
> >> \def \eolsection
> >> 	{
> >> 		\begingroup
> >> 		\catcode `\^^M = \active
> >> 		\uccode `\~ = `\^^M
> >> 		\uppercase {\def \innereolsection ##1~}{\endgroup \message {##1}}\relax
> >>          	\innereolsection
> >> 	}
> >> Where I have "\message {##1}", you should insert whatever
> >> you want to do with My Title and analogous parameters.

> Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> > "1" might have the wrong uccode different than 0 or `1.
> > (But I would consider it as quite small risk.

"Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)" <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>
answered 06.01.2011 16:57:04:
>
> I had to re-read that several times before I saw your point.
> But now I have seen it, I am ROTFL :-)  (In less polite
> groups, I have even seen PMSL, but I would not sink to
> such vulgarity in these refined circles).  But you are,
> of course, quite correct : "1" /might/ have the wrong
> \uccode.  But it is a little unlikely !