Re: autoscan.pl clean-up

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:

Alexandre> On Jan 29, 2001, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
Jim> Of these changes, only the backslash-quoting one is absolutely
Jim> necessary.

>> Thanks, I applied your patch, but the necessary part is the one I
>> don't understand.  Why do you quote these?

Alexandre> Because `@' is a variable prefix in Perl?

But the thing is this is autoconf _.pl_.

~/src/ace % sed -n '/@VERSION/{ = ; p ;}' autoscan.pl            nostromo Err 1
112
  print "autoscan (@PACKAGE_NAME@) @VERSION@
~/src/ace % sed -n '112p' autoscan                               nostromo 15:15
  print "autoscan (GNU Autoconf) 2.49d

so...