Hi Eric,
On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:52:50 -0700, "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I'm not sure if any
> existing m4 scripts depended on this undocumented behavior. If you think
> it wise, I could do a followup patch to edit the branch to issue a
> warning
> but still perform the equality test, rather than this patch's behavior of
> treating = as a hard error.
Yes, we should not introduce regressions in a maintenance release. HEAD
on the other hand is free to DTRT.
Cheers,
Gary
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