Re: fix AT_SETUP's sh-escaping

[Eric Blake]

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According to Joel E. Denny on 10/26/2006 12:28 PM:
> 
> Ok, this seemingly obvious point didn't click with me completely 
> yesterday.  It seems a little funny to me that anyone would (1) pass in a 
> test description with macros to be expanded later and then (2) expect that 
> nothing strange would happen if the expansions contained characters that 
> are special to whatever the output language happens to be.

Until you realize that having macros expanding to characters that are
special in M4 is a desirable feature in autom4te, and that expanding the
macros early can mess up M4 parsing, whereas expanding them late will
work.  The manual documents the problems of having a macro that expands to
"#include <stdio.h>", and expanding that early, where it is treated as an
M4 comment, vs. expanding it late for a valid C code snippet.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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