Re: Autoconf should fail if there are macros with invalid names

2017-02-21 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/21/2017 02:04 PM, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > While it is possible to avoid unexpected macro invocations by > overquoting all text that could possibly be part of a macro, neither > Autoconf itself nor most user code does this. Unexpected macro > expansion would likely cause problems that wou

Autoconf should fail if there are macros with invalid names

2017-02-21 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
While it is possible to avoid unexpected macro invocations by overquoting all text that could possibly be part of a macro, neither Autoconf itself nor most user code does this. Unexpected macro expansion would likely cause problems that would be difficult to debug. Therefore, Autoconf should fail