Re: Comment delimiters in the autoconf archive

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Peter Simons wrote:

> True, using "dnl", the comments won't make it into the generated
> configure script, but my guess is that hardly any user ever really
> looks into the shell scripts. As long as the comments are contained in
> the m4 source, this seems to suffice.

I read the shell scripts "all the time", and don't recall seeing any
useful comments (neither mine nor the autoconf distribution, ;-) I'm there
to trace scripts that aren't working properly, so the only useful
information is the variables and their substitution.  Useful comments are
those in the usage section of the macros -- outside their definition.

I write comments anyway, out of habit...

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