Re: [Axiom-developer] Building Axiom with unmodified noweb

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Hi Gaby,

I've once made a test and Bill confirmed my findings...

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2005-12/msg00262.html

It seems that there is only ONE line in Axiom that still needs the noweb 
 patch. I think we should simple add an @ to escape the << and get rid 
of the noweb sources.
Tim seems to want the following "non-noweb convention".

  If
  ... <<Blah>> ...
  appears in the text and the chunk name <<Blah>> is not defined,
  then noweb should output "<<Blah>>" literally.

That is not Norman Ramsey's definition, he doesn't like it and he even 
presented an awk-script that can be used as a filter to achieve that 
behaviour.

We should get rid of this convention and we should not have need for the 
awk script. I would rather tell to people that they should write 
according to noweb's definition than introducing a slight modification 
like given through the above convention. (Where should we document that 
anyway?)

Ralf