Re: expansion
Jack Woehr <[email protected]>
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Josef Vukovic wrote: > > define(`foo',`foo is not bar') this cause a infinite loop. OH!!! Yes, that's a very important use case that we all encounter. Correct is: define(`foo',``foo' is not `bar'') The answer to this sort of thing is always more levels of quoting. I don't think anyone on the list quite understood your question, so please excuse that I cc: the list to close the issue in people's minds. -- Jack J. Woehr # «'I know what "it" means well enough, when I find http://www.well.com/~jax # a thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or http://www.softwoehr.com # a worm.'» - Lewis Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_