Re: branch-1_4 off-by-one in line reporting

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Hi Eric,

On 12 Oct 2006, at 16:13, Eric Blake wrote:
> I still want CVS head to follow Solaris' parsing precedence
> rules (macros, then quotes, then comments), rather than the current  
> behavior
> (comments, macros, quotes).

Can you remind me why that is?  The first thing that happens in any
parser I'm familiar with is to discard the comments, why is it a good
thing for M4 to behave differently?  (I think I know an answer, but
I'm curious to understand your reasoning here)

Cheers,
        Gary
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