CTAN has a new package: xnewcommand

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A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks again for the package,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: xnewcommand
Author's name: Josselin Noirel
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xnewcommand
Summary description: Allow to define \protected or \global macros by 
  means of \newcommand
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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For most purposes, the features of \newcommand
suffice. Nonetheless, \newcommand lacks some
interesting features like the ability to make
definition global or to use the \protected prefix
supplied by e-TEX. This--surprisingly
small--package makes possible to pass an optional
argument \newcommand so that is becomes possible
to use the \global and \protected prefixes.
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   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xnewcommand
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   http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=xnewcommand
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