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

2007-01-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 1/28/2007 2:40 AM: > 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 look

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

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because I was hoping that M4 2.0 could borrow a leaf from shell parsing, > and ALSO implement things like ${1-default} that is more compact than the > current ifelse(`$1',,`default',`$1') in M4 parlance. Sure, but doesn't that just delay the conversion pro