> -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I deleted the sentence (first person disclaimers in a manual is rather > tacky) but did nothing about the lack of implementation. > > But since POSIX requires it, and since it can, indeed, be > used to concatenate macros that would otherwise contain > unbalanced quotes if expanded in isolation, I think it is > worth adding to M4 1.4.11. Patch to follow soon. Thank you very much. That's great news. On another tack, the otherwise excellent m4 manual is silent on what happens if you change the quoting characters to open parenthesis, close parenthesis. I would expect things to break, since these characters enclose a macro's arguments; perhaps it would be worthwhile to add a warning to the manual not to do this, or to prohibit it outright, or perhaps to clarify the resulting situation. (Similar, but more theoretical, questions arise for use of comma, dollar, and number sign as quoting characters.) Regards, Konrad Schwarz _______________________________________________ Bug-m4 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-m4
