Re: patch to avoid huge buffer in scan-skel.l

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:02:57 +0100
> 
> If you find some spare time, spend it reading the documentation of
> M5: there are a few simple ideas in there that we just need to steal
> and implement in GNU M4 to suddenly vastly simplify, improve and
> immensely speed up all our M4 based tools.

I briefly scanned it, but I don't see the ideas.  Sorry.

> The last significant effort will be making M4 be a library.

That will be a lot of work, though.  Wouldn't it be better to use an
already-existing library instead?  Something like Guile, say?

I originally didn't think that Guile was nearly as good a match as M4
for this problem, but now that I've seen what the M4 solution looks
like I'm not so sure.  Autogen uses Guile for this sort of thing, and
it seems to work fairly well.  <http://autogen.sourceforge.net/>