Re: Quotation Rule Of Thumb - take 2

[Pavel Roskin]

Hi, Akim and Alexandre!

> Alexandre> IMO, quadrigraphs are an abomination that should only be
> Alexandre> used when absolutely necessary.
>
> I'd suggest keeping the strongest words of Alexandre in the
> documentation (quadrigraphs are an abomination that should only be
> used when absolutely necessary).

Will do.

> Alexandre> Unfortunately, there are cases in which it is, and they
> Alexandre> should only be introduced within this context, IMHO.  For
> Alexandre> example, I wouldn't have used quadrigraphs for #include.
>
> It can avoid serious problems, but I agree only Autoconf maintainers
> should use such things.

You are agreeing with something that wasn't said :-)
Even if quadrigraphs are only used internally, it's still better to
document then unless we want to scare potential contributors.

> ~/src/am % m4                                                    nostromo Err 
> 1
> define(foo, `# $`1' = $1')

Thanks for the information.

> If you don't have a means to create a dollar, there are comments you
> cannot write.

I'm not a lawyer, but it sound like a violation of The Bill of Rights :-)

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin