Re: @BKL@, @BKR@, etc.

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Paul> No.  E.g. grep's configure.in says:

Paul>   LIBOBJS=`echo $LIBOBJS|sed 's/\.o /\$U.o /g;s/\.o$/\$U.o/'`

Paul> and bison's aclocal.m4 says:

Paul>   echo timestamp > `echo <<$>>am_file | sed -e 's%:.*%%' -e
Paul> 's%[^/]*$%%'`stamp-h$am_indx

Arg.  Thanks for the exhaustive check.

Paul> But these aren't trigraphs; they're quadrigraphs.  :-)

:)

Paul> I just checked a wide variety of source code using autoconf, and
Paul> found no instances of these quadrigraphs in any of them.

OK, so I think it is sold.  Well, until the great autoconf-patches
judgment.  Will you submit a patch, or we implement your idea?

        Akim