>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas E Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thomas> His example quoted both the macro names (simple) and their
Thomas> content (harder). I was asking about the latter.
I see.
Parsing m4 is definitely a hard task. Either use m4 to do that, or
just use a simple heuristics. In fact, it can sometimes be wrong to
quote the argument, for instance when you want to duplicate:
define([AC_COPY], defn([AC_ORIGINAL]))
Admittedly there will probably not be such things in the Autoconf
Macro Archive.
A simple check could be something like
define([_AC_DEFUN_ORIG], defn([AC_DEFUN]))
define([AC_DEFUN],
[ifelse($#, 1, [],
$#, 2, [],
[errprint(__file__:__line__: broken definition)])
AC_DEFUN([$1], [$2])])
But I doubt that people would provide such broken definitions.
