Re: patch to avoid huge buffer in scan-skel.l

[Bruce Korb]

>  Paul> I originally didn't think that Guile was nearly as good a match as M4
>  Paul> for this problem, but now that I've seen what the M4 solution looks
>  Paul> like I'm not so sure.  Autogen uses Guile for this sort of thing, and
>  Paul> it seems to work fairly well.  http://autogen.sourceforge.net/
> 
> > The people I know who tried Guile had me convinced it is still too soon.
> 
> Which version of Guile did they try, and what problems did they run into?
> (I'm not a Guile user myself, but I keep meaning to give it a try....)

Hi Paul,

The answer, of course, is:  "It depends."  (I don't follow bison at all
and just stumbled upon this thread.)  What is being done for which M4
is proving to be inadequate?  For myself, I put M4 as appropriate for
tasks that are in the window between things that are too complex to do
easily with C preprocessors and are simple enough that you don't need
to iterate through lists of values.  Other than for autoconf,
I don't use it much.  :-)

Cheers - Bruce