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http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=m4.git;a=commitdiff;h=05528e98e0257bcccbb5001b8ff09293e42d19b6 The branch, branch-1.6 has been updated via 05528e98e0257bcccbb5001b8ff09293e42d19b6 (commit) from 2b570fc0192b1a07ba77bed07d582a3dd788ab7f (commit) Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have not appeared on any other notification email; so we list those revisions in full, below. - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit 05528e98e0257bcccbb5001b8ff09293e42d19b6 Author: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon Apr 21 16:27:01 2008 -0600 Fix spelling of attribution to Christopher Strachey. * doc/m4.texinfo (History, Inhibiting Invocation): Fix typo. * THANKS: Update. Reported by Fernando Carrijo. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ THANKS | 1 + doc/m4.texinfo | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 58abd2d..8a29282 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2008-04-21 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + + Fix spelling of attribution to Christopher Strachey. + * doc/m4.texinfo (History, Inhibiting Invocation): Fix typo. + * THANKS: Update. + Reported by Fernando Carrijo. + 2008-04-17 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix buildbot failure. diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 8d0aae1..eb2a79d 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Erez Zadok [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Allman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Backus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] +Fernando Carrijo [EMAIL PROTECTED] François Pinard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frank Schwidom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gary V. Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/doc/m4.texinfo b/doc/m4.texinfo index cefadfe..05b349f 100644 --- a/doc/m4.texinfo +++ b/doc/m4.texinfo @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ debugging their @code{m4} scripts than doing real work. Beware that @cindex history of @code{m4} @cindex @acronym{GNU} M4, history of @code{GPM} was an important ancestor of @code{m4}. See -C. Stratchey: ``A General Purpose Macro generator'', Computer Journal +C. Strachey: ``A General Purpose Macro generator'', Computer Journal 8,3 (1965), pp.@: 225 ff. @code{GPM} is also succinctly described into David Gries classic ``Compiler Construction for Digital Computers''. @@ -1273,7 +1273,7 @@ with no arguments. @section Preventing macro invocation An innovation of the @code{m4} language, compared to some of its -predecessors (like Stratchey's @code{GPM}, for example), is the ability +predecessors (like Strachey's @code{GPM}, for example), is the ability to recognize macro calls without resorting to any special, prefixed invocation character. While generally useful, this feature might sometimes be the source of spurious, unwanted macro calls. So, @acronym{GNU} hooks/post-receive -- GNU M4 source repository
