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Re: AC_DIVERSION_INIT and autoconf 2.52


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: AC_DIVERSION_INIT and autoconf 2.52
Date: 24 Jan 2002 14:10:51 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp)

>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Korb <address@hidden> writes:

>> Node programming in M4:
>> 
>> | As a matter of fact, _anything that is not documented must not be
>> used_.

Bruce> Isn't a little unreasonable to expect everyone to read, study
Bruce> and virtually memorize the entire manual?  How else would one
Bruce> be expected to notice an aside mentioned in one of the texi
Bruce> nodes?  Would a patch be accepted that substituted "AP_" for
Bruce> non-public "AC_" names?  A few minutes with emacs, sed and grep
Bruce> ought to do the trick....I wonder how much painful howling
Bruce> would result.... :-(

Save your strength for other tasks, it's been now two years that most
internal macros are named _AC_*.



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