Bruno Haible via "Bug reports for Bison, the GNU parser generator" <[email protected]> writes:
> Paul Eggert wrote: >> For now, though, it's better not to use the undocumented var. > > Definitely, yes. > The role of 'atlocal.in' is documented, so we can use that. > as_nl is not documented, so we shouldn't use it. > > And probably it won't be documented, because POSIX now supports writing > $'\n' without need for a variable [1], and while not all shells support this > yet, those which don't ([2], column 12) will vanish over time. +1. Also, I assumed that the 'as_*' variables where internal implementation details of the m4sh 'AS_*' macros and shouldn't be used. Maybe I am wrong about that, though. Collin
