Re: Standard way to use m4sugar

On 11/24/18 6:47 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I see that m4sugar has been included in autoconf and bison. It sounds
> like it could be made into a stand alone package. Unfortunately, it is
> not.

Making it an independent package would be a topic to bring up on the 
autoconf list (as its current maintainer).  But remember, part of 
Autoconf's m4sugar language is not just the m4 macros it provides, but 
the fact that it is a perl script wrapper around m4 that does some 
postprocessing that m4 itself cannot do (such as providing quadrigraph 
support, or actually making things like m4_warn() provide a warning to 
the end user). So unless you are planning on preserving the perl wrapper 
around m4, there is not much point in porting the m4sugar language to 
pure m4.

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