On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:57 AM, 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, not because m4 was inherently awful. It has > problems, but you'd only encounter them when doing something _very_ > abstract.
Ah. I actually wasn't aware of m4's use with sendmail. I first met it as the aforementioned PHP preprocessor, simply by Googling for something along the lines of "generic preprocessor". First hit solved my problems. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
