Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, cpp has the significant advantage that its active syntax is
designed to be embedded in a programming language and are Perl comments.
This is *not* true of m4, which would be horribly, horribly confused by a
Perl script.
I fail to see this
Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I fail to see this point.
Having a program depend on a preprocessing stage that, if skipped,
would still result in valid but erroneous source seems dangerous to me.
No, the point is more that normal Perl source is *full* of active m4
characters.
