>>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Stepan Kasal wrote: >> Hi, >> I'd like to stir the calm water here. >> What do you think about the proposal formulated in >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-12/msg00095.html >> ? > I think it sounds like an excellent idea, though we must be > careful to support bugwards compatible quoting so that old > scripts will continue to work, and so that GNU M4 can grok > generic M4 scripts. > How do you think best to do that? > I think having quoted output by default is too deep a change, > most likely adding a flag that can be toggled by a command-line > switch and/or a runtime macro is cleanest... But it provides no help for applications such as Autoconf that need backward compatibility. So I'm neither in favor of options or builtins changing the behavior of builtins. Rather I think we should have another set of builtins. While you're at it, the new regexp builtins should drop BRE dead, and use ERE too. _______________________________________________ Bug-m4 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-m4
