Re: Code that disapears

[Akim Demaille]

 Paul> Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
 Paul> I can't see any way to do that with arbitrary file names and
 Paul> GNU m4 1.4.  File names can contain characters like ",", "(",
 Paul> "@", and "[", and these are all problematic in M4, the way
 Paul> we're using M4.
 >> 
 >> I don't care about this problem until it happens.

 Paul> It has already happened.  I did that work in response to a bug report
 Paul> where a system administrator installed Bison in a directory with "@"
 Paul> in its name.  The original symptom was a long way away from the "@",
 Paul> so it took a good deal of time to diagnose.  Please see
 Paul> <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2002-12/msg00004.html>
 Paul> for the final installment.

I see.  Thanks for pointing this out.  Nevertheless, I would have
preferred that this system administrator had to wait for this problem
to be nicely fixed, rather than seeing things that worked *before*
ceased to work.

But I agree I'm guilty for not having installed more test cases.