Re: Code that disapears

[Paul Eggert]

Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

>  Paul> I can't see any way to do that with arbitrary file names and
>  Paul> GNU m4 1.4.  File names can contain characters like ",", "(",
>  Paul> "@", and "[", and these are all problematic in M4, the way
>  Paul> we're using M4.
> 
> I don't care about this problem until it happens.

It has already happened.  I did that work in response to a bug report
where a system administrator installed Bison in a directory with "@"
in its name.  The original symptom was a long way away from the "@",
so it took a good deal of time to diagnose.  Please see
<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2002-12/msg00004.html>
for the final installment.