Re: named arguments in m4?

On 04/20/2014 04:36 PM, Daniel Goldman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Any chance m4 could (or would want to) support named arguments? In other
> environments, I usually prefer named arguments over $n arguments.
> 

Interesting question.  The master branch of m4.git (which is currently
highly experimental and nowhere near a release) agrees with you, and did
attempt to add named argument support.  But we're a long way off from
ever making it actually useful enough to release; right now, the
development is focused on the stable branch-1.4 branch.

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