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Unwanted spaces in user defined structures and the uses of % [duplicate]

This question arise from my recent activity on user defined commands of various kind. In the answer to a recently posed question, @egreg pointed out to me the importance of not forgetting a % after ...
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Is there a good reason to define helper macros second? [duplicate]

As a mathematician, my training is to define my terms before I use them. As a computer programmer, I recognize that there are sometimes good reasons to call a method/function/procedure before its full ...
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What practices are there regarding the use or avoidance of "internal" TeX or LaTeX commands?

What practices are there regarding the use or avoidance of "internal" TeX or LaTeX commands? (About "command" vs "macro", there is some discussion in this TeX.SX answer, though I don't know whether ...
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