Re: extremely annoying warning in new makeinfo

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:17:54AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> The CVS version of makeinfo produces zillions of this warning:
> 
>   warning: @foo defined with zero or more than one argument should be
>            invoked with {}
> 
> This hasn't been the case with the old makeinfo version, and I suspect
> that there are many, many texinfo documents which don't follow this
> new convention.  Has there been ever a situation where
> 
>   @foo
> 
> called alone in a line caused problems?

If I recall well, this was decided because it was considered to be
wrong, and TeX cannot handle rightly the situation.  An dit is not new,
this is in the Texinfo manual:

   The braces are required in the invocation (but not the
 definition), even when the macro takes no arguments, consistent with
 all other Texinfo commands.

-- 
Pat