> Or maybe you are implying one step even further, where AC_REQUIRE becomes > optional, and all zero-argument defun'd macros are implicitly required,
... instead of expanded in the output flow (unless at toplevel) ... > with no effort from the user? Yes, like that, though not automagically. You'd have do use a separate macro to define these AC_REQUIRE-only macros (which could actually be m4_defun_once itself). > But all of this seems like it should > probably be delayed to post-2.64. Yes. Paolo