Re: expansion

[Jack Woehr]

Josef Vukovic wrote:
> define(`foo',`foo is not bar') this cause a infinite loop.
OH!!!

Yes, that's a very important use case that we all encounter. Correct is:

define(`foo',``foo' is not `bar'')

The answer to this sort of thing is always more levels of quoting.

I don't think anyone on the list quite understood your question, so please
excuse that I cc: the list to close the issue in people's minds.

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