Re: Having Trouble with m4 Input (m4 version 1.4.13)

On 09/03/2010 10:14 AM, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
> Tom Browder wrote:
>> my experience with m4 has not
>> been comforting.
>
> m4 is not here to comfort you, but rather, to cast a merciless spotlight
> on your syntactic inadequacies :)
>
>> define(`Min', include(`conf/MINOR'))
>
> Oops. No quotes around the definition body!

That depends.  I've seen intentional unquoted includes in a define(), if 
you want Min to be defined to the expansion of the contents of 
conf/MINOR (and thus be expanded a second time when Min is expanded, 
having read the file exactly once), rather than defining Min to be 
shorthand for including the file in-place every time Min is expanded.

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