Re: Documentation Bug

[Eric Blake]

According to Chris Penev on 2/19/2010 8:56 PM:
>     Thanks for the report.  Yes, double-quoting the first argument of
>     translit
>     would make the macro more robust.  But this particular example was drawn
>     from a real-life example (on the gnulib list), where single-quoting was
>     sufficient for that context, under the assumption that no one will
>     use the
>     macro on a C function name that collides with a macro name.  So I'm
>     debating between changing the example in situ, vs. adding a link to
>     another section in the final chapter on improved examples, to further
>     discuss that issue.

I want to get m4 1.4.14 out the door, so I went ahead and wrote this
patch.  I went with the in-place improvements.  Thanks again for the
report, which implies you were carefully reading the manual.

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