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Re: AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED doc update
From: |
Stepan Kasal |
Subject: |
Re: AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED doc update |
Date: |
Tue, 10 May 2005 13:45:04 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.4.1i |
Hello,
autoconf.texi contains the following:
> [...] You may safely leave out the quotes when the
> +argument cannot contain any macro calls, [...]
Strictly speaking, this is not true. The condition is that the argument
doesn't contain any macro calls, commas, nor right parentheses.
Of course, commas are mentioned a few lines below:
> [...] Here, the argument of
> address@hidden must be quoted; otherwise, its comma would be
> +interpreted as an argument separator. [...]
Another thing which really should be emphasized is that you can omit
[ ] for readability if the parameter is very short, but you don't do it
with longer ones, even if they don't contain macro calls.
Perhaps the phrase ``simple text'' wasn't that bad. An exact definition
could be only in parentheses after it.
I apologize that I don't have enough energy to produce a patch.
Stepan Kasal