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Re: A simplification of _AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: A simplification of _AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:20:57 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:

> If $ac_cv_$1 started with "-", set would misinterpret it as option.

Ah, sorry, I didn't catch that.  The usual and more general way around
this is as follows:

set x $ac_cv_$1
shift

Since this matches common practice better (and is slightly shorter
overall), wouldn't it be better to do it that way?




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