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Changes to m4/HACKING,v


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Changes to m4/HACKING,v
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:41:26 +0000

CVSROOT:        /sources/m4
Module name:    m4
Changes by:     Eric Blake <ericb>      06/09/19 11:41:25

Index: HACKING
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/m4/m4/HACKING,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -b -r1.3 -r1.4
--- HACKING     22 Aug 2006 22:36:28 -0000      1.3
+++ HACKING     19 Sep 2006 11:41:25 -0000      1.4
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@
 
 * Changes with user-visible effects must be mentioned in NEWS.
 
+* New macros must be blind, or else prefixed with `m4' or `__', in
+  order to minimize backward compatibility issues with previous
+  releases of M4 when processing English text.
+
 * GNU Coding Standards should be followed:
     http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/
   Additionally, while GNU M4 is not yet POSIX compliant, we are trying




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