Re: AU_ALIAS vs. AU_DEFUN

[Akim Demaille]

Le 29 déc. 04, à 10:08, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit :

> Hi Akim,

Hi and best wishes for this year!

> Thanks for your report.  Two questions:
> Does it harm to mention $@ if the macro does not take any arguments?
> (I think not, but neither Autoconf nor m4 info seem to be very 
> elaborate
> on this).

Nope, it makes no difference: m4 never looks at what you do with
the arguments.

> AU_ALIAS seems not to be part of official Autoconf interface.  So I'd
> take the second form then, right?

It is a mistake if AU_ALIAS is not officialized.  It will not change,
you may assume it is public: I'll document it.