RE: Forbidden strings

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Akim Demaille [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 10:58 AM
> To: Alexandre Oliva
> Cc: Pavel Roskin; address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Forbidden strings
> 
> 
> >>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> I'd rather take almost the full range and except AR if we need to.
> 
> Alexandre> I'd prefer that the maintainers of autoconf weren't so
> Alexandre> greedy about prefixes :-)
> 
> In fact my position (let's take the full range) is also based on a
> simple fact: if today the Libtool team needs AR, maybe tomorrow they
> will want AC_.  Them, or anybody else.  So just putting the feet where
> it seems sane ([ACUHTS]) seems just a means to hide the problem to me.
> That's also why I insisted on having autoconf.sh produce configure
> even if there are forbidden strings in it: how can you be sure that's
> not what meant the author.
> 
> So, how about something like a special comment/macro stating what are
> the *words* that are allowed.  Something like
> 
> m4_accept_literals([AR_FLAGS], [lt_cv_AR_FLAGS])
> 
> then autoconf.sh would just gather these guys, and say nothing about
> them.
> 

That'll be fine, especially as in the future it can be extended to even
*warn* if I try to use as reserved a word that *is* an existing macro (or if
a new macro was created that conflict with my reserved word) :-)

Then we'll have both flexibility *and* (some degree of) security.

Regards,

        Bernard

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