>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas E Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thomas> On 20 Jul 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:
>> >>>>> "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
Thomas> it's not as hard as parsing perl (at least m4 has a consistent
Thomas> syntax ;-)
Right :)
I forgot to emphasize one thing: properly written Autoconf code does
not need changequote at all. Yes, there are occasion where
changequote is needed, but mainly in very very internal macros which
do bizarre things. AC_HELP_STRING is the most difficult macro of all
in this respect.
I think your (actually I'm more talking to Peter than to you Thomas :)
program should look for changequote and warn that most probably it
should not be used.
See the documentation for the rationale. If you are not convinced,
let's not start another thread, do what you want :)
