Hello, On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:16:55PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Yes, AC_FOREACH is relatively widely used, but if it managed to escape > > documentation for so long, we should accept its victory now. ;-) > > Did you mean "we should not accept its victory now"?
AC_FOREACH wants to hide. It strived against the documentation all the time. We should just admit that it has achived that goal. That's what I meant. > Look, the chapter says: > | You may completely skip this chapter if you are new to Autoconf. Its > | intention is mainly to help maintainers updating their packages by > | understanding how to move to more modern constructs. > > The fact that it is widely used is IMVHO a reason to mention it here, > not against it: users should learn how to replace it correctly. It > helps users to be certain that they can safely replace AC_FOREACH with > m4_foreach_w. Yes, you are right, it's better if it is documented. Sorry for the fuss. Thank you very much for the patch! Stepan
