Re: defn() with multiple arguments

Eric Blake <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.m4.patches
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Re-adding the list to CC; hope you don't mind.

According to Schwarz, Konrad on 8/9/2007 8:16 AM:
> Would it be worthwhile to add more motivation?
> 
> For example, after the sentence
> 
> "On the other hand, it is possible to exploit the fact that @code{defn}
> can concatenate multiple macros prior to the rescanning phase, in order
> to join the definitions of macros that, in isolation, have unbalanced
> quotes."
> 
> add
> 
> "This is particularly useful when one has used several macros to
> accumulate text that M4 should rescan as a whole."

Sure, I'll probably go ahead and add this sentence to the manual.

> 
> perhaps followed by
> 
> ", that is, M4 has generated text for its own consumption."

Hmm, in my first read, that didn't add much beyond what the earlier
sentence said.

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Eric Blake             [email protected]
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