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Re: submit the following for Gnu m4 documentation


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: submit the following for Gnu m4 documentation
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:54:08 -0600
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According to Jack Woehr on 8/30/2008 3:24 PM:
>> Your implementation is not robust to active symbols (and in general,
> You're right, of course.
> 
> Robustification solves a lot of problems I'm not interested in diverging
> from PigIron
> development to solve :( So I guess I'll let it go, the example I
> submitted stands revealed
> as more a model of effectively solving a constrained software
> development problem
> than a paradigm for robust m4 programming.

That's all right - it obviously worked for you, whether or not it serves
as a model implementation to document for others to copy.  And at least
the list archives now mention your approach, so maybe someone googling for
similar solutions will still benefit from your post.

> 
> Keep up the good work!

It's always nice to hear success stories; glad we could be of assistance!

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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