Re: listing currently defined macros

2008-02-17 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Eric! On 17 Feb 2008, at 04:12, Eric Blake wrote: I have often found myself wanting a subset of the currently defined macros that matches a regular expression or glob. But there's no easy way to get at it, even with the new m4symbols macro on the head, because you have to know the name

m4 module loader interface simplifications

2008-02-17 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
While pondering on slimming down the number of builtins in M4-2.0, it occurred to me that load and unload are much lower level than we need to expose to the programmer. I think we should abstract away the difference between {s,}include of an m4 file and of a dso, and do away with load/unloa