In article <n4mdnzkiorrtrjbmnz2dnuvz5godn...@giganews.com>, Erik Max Francis <m...@alcyone.com> wrote:
> On 05/29/2013 08:05 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > It's not a bad tool. I used it as a sort of PHP preprocessor, because > > requirements at work had me wanting to have a source file defining a > > PHP class and having an autogenerated section in the middle of that > > class. PHP's 'include' directive doesn't work for that. Of course, had > > we been using a better language, that wouldn't have been an issue (and > > it stopped being an issue when we improved the design and stopped > > using that class system, too, though I retained the makefile > > directives about building .php.m4 -> .php files). But still, GNU M4 is > > a decent piece of technology. > > Agreed. The terror that most people feel when hearing "m4" is because > m4 was associated with sendmail Arrrrggghhh. You had to go and dredge up those bad memories? I hadn't thought about sendmail config files in years. I'll probably never be able to get to sleep tonight. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
