-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Joel E. Denny on 4/24/2008 12:31 AM: | This message from Eric was never delivered to me, but I stumbled upon it | in the bug-autoconf archives: | | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2008-04/msg00064.html | | Sorry to break threading with this forged reply.
That's okay. My apologies for using gmane in spite of its lousy behavior as a web gateway when replying to cross-posted threads (unfortunately, I don't know of any better web-based gateways that do what I want when I'm not at my home computer; nabble provides an interface that gives better control over where a single post goes, but also lacks cross-posting abilities, and mangles posts worse than gmane). | | I proposed that the result of m4_dquote be passed to m4_bpatsubst. I | didn't mean that the result of m4_dquote should be passed directly to | m4_len. The point of the example was to demonstrate what happens if you pass arguments to alternate macros, be it m4_len or m4_bpatsubst. And I had hoped that the example would convince you that m4_quote, not m4_dquote, was what you were thinking of (effectively, the only difference between m4_quote(foo) and m4_expand([foo]) is whether unquoted space after comma is stripped). | |> Thus, |> using m4_expand provides a minimal-effort QoI improvement to cater to people |> who don't know how to follow our advice of using proper quoting. | | This is the answer I was really looking for. Glad you agree :) - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkgQf/gACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCdRwCgukmHk6IOSUgQ8IDDiuQcq2YC Lc4AoMizvL4ITJGlmuoGmC7KXOw/8/a5 =g0bD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
