Re: https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html - UPDATE
Eric Blake <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.m4.bugs |
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| Organization | Red Hat, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 02/11/2018 12:20 PM, Howard Johnson wrote: > OOPs. Now I see that in fact the leading quote is a back tick (not a > single tick), while the trailing quote is a single tick. Strange. > > Might be good to spell this uncommon usage out more clearly in > https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#Quoted-strings > > i.e. say: > > A quoted string is a sequence of characters surrounded by quote > strings, defaulting to ‘`’ (back tick) and ‘'’ (single quote), where the > nested begin and end quotes within the string are balanced. The value of > a string token is the text, with one level of quotes stripped off. > > rather than just: > > A quoted string is a sequence of characters surrounded by quote > strings, defaulting to ‘`’ and ‘'’, where the nested begin and end > quotes within the string are balanced. The value of a string token is > the text, with one level of quotes stripped off. Sure, we can apply that patch (patches are easier to read in diff format, but it looks like all you did was add the strings "(back tick)" and "(single quote)" in the right places). -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org