Re: FYI: catch variable names starting with `_' (PR/291).

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
>>> @@ -5927,8 +5927,13 @@ { my ($var, $var_is_am, $type, $cond,
>>> $value, $where) = @_;
>>> 
>>> - err $where, "bad characters in macro name `$var'" + err $where,
>>> "bad characters in variable name `$var'" if $var !~
>>> /$MACRO_PATTERN/o;

Akim> In Make talk, these are really macros.

adl> Yep, but it will be less confusing if with reserve the word
adl> `macro' for Autoconf macros.  The manual already states that
adl> "Makefile macros" are called "variables" in Automake.

Great.  Then you might want to s/macro/variable/ in automake.in itself.