Re: M4 syntax $11 vs. ${11}

2007-01-28 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's an updated (and smaller) patch that makes CVS autoconf happy with > branch-1_4 of M4, after today's commit that adds --warn-syntax to M4. In looking at this patch, I wonder: why not have M4 2.0 use the extension only if the input is of the form ${DI

Re: M4 syntax $11 vs. ${11}

2007-01-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Paul Eggert wrote on Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 10:40:25AM CET: > > Very few shell scripts will contain usages like ${11} or ${0}, FWIW, I've even been using ${1} precisely to avoid M4 expansion of it inside a macro. Ahh, that reminds me, I've never reported the pdksh ${1%$2} expansion bug for menti