Re: @value, macro and other expansion questions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:45:10 +0200
> From: Patrice Dumas <address@hidden>
> 
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 09:52:27PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > That place where validation is done _is_ the problem if you don't use
> > the switch: tag table entries, xrefs, and node names are @-expanded at
> > different points in the code control flow, so if some of them use
> > @-commands while others don't, you get validation failures and other
> > problems.  We don't want to lose validation, do we?
> 
> Indeed. But the documentation says 'Allow `@'-commands in node names.'

Well, I challenge you to find a more accurate description that is at
the same time clear to an occasional user and concise enough to fit in
the "--help" output ;-)

> I also think that it should be the default.

Perhaps today we can do that, since the machines are so much more
powerful than they were back when I implemented this feature.