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Re: Documentation Bug


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Documentation Bug
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:57:20 -0700
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According to Chris Penev on 2/19/2010 5:53 PM:
> It is very likely a documentation bug that the first argument to
> translit is not double quoted.

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.  Either way, would you care to prepare such a patch to
the manual?

> http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html

You could have at least narrowed in on the particular section you were
referring to:
http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#Input-processing

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Eric Blake             address@hidden

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