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Re: AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED doc update


From: Stepan Kasal
Subject: Re: AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED doc update
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 13:45:04 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

Hello,

autoconf.texi contains the following:

>  [...]  You may safely leave out the quotes when the
> +argument cannot contain any macro calls, [...]

Strictly speaking, this is not true.  The condition is that the argument
doesn't contain any macro calls, commas, nor right parentheses.

Of course, commas are mentioned a few lines below:

> [...]  Here, the argument of
> address@hidden must be quoted; otherwise, its comma would be
> +interpreted as an argument separator. [...]

Another thing which really should be emphasized is that you can omit
[ ] for readability if the parameter is very short, but you don't do it
with longer ones, even if they don't contain macro calls.

Perhaps the phrase ``simple text'' wasn't that bad.  An exact definition
could be only in parentheses after it.

I apologize that I don't have enough energy to produce a patch.

Stepan Kasal




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