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Re: saving AC development strength
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: saving AC development strength |
Date: |
29 Jan 2002 19:21:41 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) |
| Akim Demaille wrote:
| > Bruce, what you reproduced here is not what I sent. I quadrigraphed
| > only non paired quotes.
|
| I understand. I know I can write code that scans the user supplied
| source to verify that the M4 quotes happen to properly nest,
| but it is far, far easier to simply replace them and know that
| I do not have to worry about M4 confusing source code square brackets
| with its notion of open and close quotes. I have three choices:
|
| 1. changequote to something certain to not be confused (probably would
| have been a really good idea way back when, but likely not now)
| 2. replace autoconf-special characters with the quadrigraphs
| (my current choice)
| 3. lexically analyize the user supplied text for square
| bracket constructs that confuses M4's quoting scheme. Then,
| if detected, only replace those characters that would enable
| M4 to properly not do substitutions in that text.
|
| The last is non-trivial and, I think, not worth doing.
OK, as long as you are sure you are not quadrigraphing actual M4
quotes, it's correct.
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