On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:12:34PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
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> However, in a few places the macros need to use brackets (usually in C
> program text or regular expressions). In those places, they use the `m4'
> builtin command `changequote' to temporarily change the quote characters
> to `<<' and `>>'.
(not a good recommendation ;-)
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>
> Shouldn't using double square brackets be considered a better solution?
probably (ksh uses that, but configure should never do that).
> This would avoid exposing m4 internals to configure.in writers. Also using
> autoconf macros while non-standard quotes are in effect causes big
> problems (as the recent example of libtool shows).
>
> Shouldn't the documentation be changed?
>
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
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