Re: Changes to m4/TODO,v

[Eric Blake]

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According to Gary V. Vaughan on 2/25/2007 12:45 PM:
> Hi Eric,

Hi Gary,

and in case I haven't mentioned, welcome back to hacking activity; hope
you enjoyed your cross-country trip!

> 
> Just browsing through my backlog...
> 
> On 20 Jan 2007, at 20:09, Eric Blake wrote:
>> --- TODO    5 Sep 2006 13:25:24 -0000    1.20
>> +++ TODO    21 Jan 2007 04:09:06 -0000    1.21
>> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>> [[snip]]
>> -  + Sort out all the weird forms of interaction between changesyntax,
>> -    changecom and changequote.  What happens if you install a quote with
>> -    changequote and removes it with changesyntax and vice versa.
>> -
> 
> Have you really done this?  Are there tests I can look at, or docs
> you can point me at please?  I'm not yet convinced that there aren't
> weird corner cases here...

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/m4-patches/2006-12/msg00016.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/m4-patches/2006-12/msg00017.html

I hammered out the code and the documentation for quite some time, and
while I am not sure that there is 100% code coverage in the testsuite, it
is certainly more comprehensive than it used to be.

I guess the telling factor will be how easily I can implement
multi-character extended arguments (a la ${{1}}) in the proposed
changeextarg that Paul wanted for use in autoconf, so that autoconf's use
of ${1} as literal text remains put.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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