Re: format and eval
"Gary V. Vaughan" <[email protected]>
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Hi Eric, On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:52:50 -0700, "Eric Blake" <[email protected]> said: > I'm not sure if any > existing m4 scripts depended on this undocumented behavior. If you think > it wise, I could do a followup patch to edit the branch to issue a > warning > but still perform the equality test, rather than this patch's behavior of > treating = as a hard error. Yes, we should not introduce regressions in a maintenance release. HEAD on the other hand is free to DTRT. Cheers, Gary -- Gary V. Vaughan ())_. gary@{lilith.warpmail.net,gnu.org} Research Scientist ( '/ http://www.oranda.demon.co.uk GNU Hacker / )= http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool Technical Author `(_~)_ http://sources.redhat.com/autobook