Re: submit the following for Gnu m4 documentation

[Jack Woehr]

Eric Blake wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion; and it's nice to see M4 getting some good use.
>   
I've been using m4 to autogenerate code on this or that project for 
about 15 years.
Thanks for maintaining a great Free Software tool.
>  First off, it would be much easier to include something in the manual if
> you submitted it as a diff against doc/m4.texinfo, rather than merely a
> snippet of what the output looks like.  And your contribution, once
> improved, will probably be long enough to need copyright assignment to
> FSF.  Is this still something you are interested in pursuing?  At any
> rate, here's some thoughts on the implementation.
>
> 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.

Keep up the good work!

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