>>> "Noah" == Noah Misch <noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I hope I have missed a general solution. Ideas? Fix m4. It has fundamental flaws from its inception: - text processing builtins (regexp etc.) should return quoted strings, they do not. - eval should do what it does it almost all the other interpreted language: take the argument and do as if it were evaluated by the top level (including side effects). Of course, as a builtin, it should return its result *quoted*. - We need to manipulate all the characters, including the quotes. We need a buitin escaping feature, not the quadrigraphs. We have none today, we're sc*ed. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
