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Re: named arguments in m4?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: named arguments in m4? |
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Mon, 21 Apr 2014 06:19:46 -0600 |
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On 04/20/2014 04:36 PM, Daniel Goldman wrote:
> Hi,
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> Any chance m4 could (or would want to) support named arguments? In other
> environments, I usually prefer named arguments over $n arguments.
>
Interesting question. The master branch of m4.git (which is currently
highly experimental and nowhere near a release) agrees with you, and did
attempt to add named argument support. But we're a long way off from
ever making it actually useful enough to release; right now, the
development is focused on the stable branch-1.4 branch.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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