Re: What to do about changeword?

[René Seindal]

Hi,

I have no problem with the removal of changeword, but it is the brainchild of 
François so I never took it out.

To be onest I don't think anybody is using it.  I can't remember seeing any 
reference to it from users of m4 for ages.

René.

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:35:09PM -0400, François Pinard wrote:
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> > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:36:05PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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> > > > Can you think of an (useful) application of the changeword machinery
> > > > that could justify the order of magnitude slowdown in the parser?  As
> > > > Rene's comments point out, changesyntax can achieve most of the useful
> > > > parts of changeword's functionality without the overhead.
> > > >
> > > > I vote for ripping it out to clean up the source, and remove the
> > > > tempatation for people to use it! :-)
> > > I agree.  I think Franc,ois is the guy to whom we should ask for the final
> > > word.
> > Shouldn't we ask Ren?!

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