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Re: [RFC] improve autotest syntax checks


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: [RFC] improve autotest syntax checks
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 19:30:20 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14)

Hello Eric,

This patch series is OK, but please look at the nits below.
Thanks for your good work on this!

* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:08:11PM CET:
>       Allow LIFO autom4te cleanup, regardless of m4_wrap being LIFO or FIFO.
>       * doc/autoconf.texi (Diagnostic Macros) <m4_fatal>: Document
>       argument.
>       (Redefined M4 Macros) <m4_wrap>: Improve documentation.
>       (Diversion support) <m4_init>: Add optional parameter.
>       (Programming in M4sh) <AS_INIT>: Likewise.
>       * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): Add cleanup parameter.
>       * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_INIT): Likewise.

m4_init([cleanup]) and AS_INIT([cleanup]) must belong to the least
intuitive interfaces that I've seen so far.  Why something named init
receives a cleanup argument rather than the name of or the thing that
it initializes, will not be understandable to users, and any apparent
analogy to AC_INIT or AT_INIT is just borked.

I don't have a good idea how to improve this, but I must confess that I
don't like it much.  Maybe have a macro m4_init_wrap for this or so?

Also, this patch series (and maybe the interface change) deserves a NEWS
entry.

> diff --git a/tests/autotest.at b/tests/autotest.at
> index 885ecca..5d0cec8 100644
> --- a/tests/autotest.at
> +++ b/tests/autotest.at
[...]

> +AT_CHECK_AT_SYNTAX([Multiple AT@&address@hidden,
> +[[AT_INIT([suite, take one])

You need to double-quote comma inside AT_INIT's argument.

> +AT_INIT([repeat])
> +]], [AT@&address@hidden: invoked multiple times])

Cheers,
Ralf




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