Re: m4p: an implementation of GNU m4 in Python

On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 05:48:02PM -0400, Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote:

> > All I can say is that autoconf surely probes the limits of m4 behavior
> > in every regard. So any incompatibility whatsoever is likely to be a
> > problem. --happy hacking, karl.
> 
> I plan on byte-for-byte compatibility with GNU m4 1.4.19.

I'd rather you aim for byte-for-byte compatibility with the
just-released 1.4.20 instead.

> It seems to
> work that way for now, but I'd like any bug reports. I also plan to
> try it more extensively myself with autotools projects soon, but I
> figured that I'd release it as soon as possible.

I will test to see how it fares against my m4 scripts.  I suspect it
won't be long before I find an incompatibility...

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