Re: expansion

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jack Woehr on 11/30/2009 9:49 PM:
> Josef Vukovic wrote:
>>
>> define(`foo',`foo is not bar') this cause a infinite loop.
> OH!!!
> 
> Yes, that's a very important use case that we all encounter. Correct is:
> 
> define(`foo',``foo' is not `bar'')

The manual also has examples of this[1]; have you read it yet?  Places
where the manual could be improved because a concept wasn't clear to you
should also be reported as a bug, so that we can try and improve the
documentation for the next person to read about issues like this.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#Ifdef

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