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Re: Suggestion to let m4 discard comments
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Suggestion to let m4 discard comments |
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Thu, 05 Jun 2014 20:23:25 -0600 |
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On 06/05/2014 08:08 PM, Daniel Goldman wrote:
> I'd like to suggest to let m4 discard comments in a future version. By
> comment, of course I mean everything between # and newline, or the
> comment delimiters set by m4_changecom macro.
Suggestion noted, and implemented several years ago on the master
branch. Alas, the master branch is lacking some TLC and is in no shape
for active use without more patches, and backporting that patch to the
stable branch-1.4 is a bit invasive.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/m4.git/tree/doc/m4.texi#n656
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