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Re: more m4 quoting


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: more m4 quoting
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:57:32 -0700
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According to Bruno Haible on 1/13/2009 2:26 PM:
> What's the rationale of quoting purely numeric m4 arguments, like in
>    AC_DEFINE([FOO], [1], ...)  ?
> It looks a bit like clutter to me, since quoting does not matter here. But
> if you and Eric and Simon are willing to do this purely for consistency,
> I'm going with it as well.

I like the consistency - it's easier to quote everything than it is to
explain why some arguments don't need quoting.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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