Hello,

autoconf.texi contains the following:

>  [...]  You may safely leave out the quotes when the
> +argument cannot contain any macro calls, [...]

Strictly speaking, this is not true.  The condition is that the argument
doesn't contain any macro calls, commas, nor right parentheses.

Of course, commas are mentioned a few lines below:

> [...]  Here, the argument of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] must be quoted; otherwise, its comma would be
> +interpreted as an argument separator. [...]

Another thing which really should be emphasized is that you can omit
[ ] for readability if the parameter is very short, but you don't do it
with longer ones, even if they don't contain macro calls.

Perhaps the phrase ``simple text'' wasn't that bad.  An exact definition
could be only in parentheses after it.

I apologize that I don't have enough energy to produce a patch.

Stepan Kasal


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