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

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 17:32:41 +0100

> The people I know who tried Guile had me convinced it is still too soon.

Which version of Guile did they try, and what problems did they run into?
(I'm not a Guile user myself, but I keep meaning to give it a try....)

Please don't get me wrong: I like M4.  I'm just worried that it might
not be the best tool for this job, as the job evolves.

> I'm referring to everything that makes the syntax more pleasant (e.g.,
> named arguments), much faster (e.g., a non macro syntax for shifts),
> and an easy means to escape some characters (i.e., the "hard quotes"
> as he says).

These are all nice things to have, particularly the last one; but at
this point we are heading down the path of designing a language (since
M5 is not what we want, either), and that sounds like a major investment.