Re: 18-fyi-numeric-interface.patch

[akim]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:56:19PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:57:21AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> While we are thinking about an extension for argument range checking in
> user defined macros, it would also be neat if we had a syntax for type
> constraints too.  I'd really like to add more non-string types to
> m4_token to speed up functions like eval...
> 
> Thoughts?

None, unfortunately.  That's a topic I have been thinking about since
years, yeah, years, under Autoconf pressure.  Couldn't come with a nice
syntax.  But at that time, I was not really thinking about M4 as hard as
now, so maybe...