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eqn anomaly
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Doug McIlroy |
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eqn anomaly |
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Date: |
Sun, 01 Mar 2020 23:07:07 -0500 |
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.EQ
define f % $1 %
f("a,b")
.EN
draws a diagnostic from Gnu eqn: "newline before end of quoted text".
Remove the comma and all is well. Apparently the comma delimits
the first argument.
The program isn't totally naive about parsing arguments. It
does think that there's only one argument in the macro call
f((a,b))
Surely this is a bug, not a feature.
Doug
- eqn anomaly,
Doug McIlroy <=