| Akim Demaille wrote: | > Bruce, what you reproduced here is not what I sent. I quadrigraphed | > only non paired quotes. | | I understand. I know I can write code that scans the user supplied | source to verify that the M4 quotes happen to properly nest, | but it is far, far easier to simply replace them and know that | I do not have to worry about M4 confusing source code square brackets | with its notion of open and close quotes. I have three choices: | | 1. changequote to something certain to not be confused (probably would | have been a really good idea way back when, but likely not now) | 2. replace autoconf-special characters with the quadrigraphs | (my current choice) | 3. lexically analyize the user supplied text for square | bracket constructs that confuses M4's quoting scheme. Then, | if detected, only replace those characters that would enable | M4 to properly not do substitutions in that text. | | The last is non-trivial and, I think, not worth doing.
OK, as long as you are sure you are not quadrigraphing actual M4 quotes, it's correct.
