Hi,
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 03:04:50PM +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> There is an outstanding issue of how to handle hard quotes, which should
> allow for unbalanced quotes in cases like this.
combination of full expansion and unbalanced quotes?
Ugly and fragile, nono.
Unbalanced quotes in a text which is not expanded?
qindir and defn
Perhaps:
define(`foo', indir(`include', `a_file'))
to fetch a contents of a file. (Well, we also have to take care of $'s.)
I will have to try to solve some examples to get a clue what remains now
when we have qindir.
> > define(b,NONO)dnl
> > patsubst(qindir(`include', f), b, x)
> > z'x
>
> Did you mean to add a quote there:
> patsubst(qindir(`include', f), `b', x)
>
> Or are you trying to specify a different use case:
> qindir(`patsubst', qindir(`include', f), `b', x)
Sure. Commited the fix.
> I'm not sure I understand what the NONO is trying to illustrate :-(
I meant to illustrate the difference from
patsubst(include(f), `b', x)
which would yield
zNONO'
Stepan
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