* Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:34:45PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > OK to apply?
> Please do apply them. Thanks, I did applied the unlink*.m4 changes. * Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:18:11AM CET: > > There is an important property that programming languages should have: > the ability to copy and paste a piece of code from one place to another. [...] > changequote does have this property to a large extent: You can move a piece > of code that uses changequote between an "unquoted" context and a > "single-quoted" context without modifications, and you can also copy/paste > to a shell if you remove the (easily visible) changequote lines and comment > lines. Hmm. You shouldn't have hardly any shell text in an "unquoted" context. But ok. > Quadrigraphs don't have this property as much: You can move a piece of code > between an "unquoted" context, a "single-quoted" context or a "doubly-quoted" > context without modifications. But no easy copy/paste to a shell. Well, to some extent. You remove the changequote lines, or you sed the quadrigraphs. Mechanically, both is easy, the former ones are a bit easier to spot by the eye. But inserting a macro call into a changequote'd region, can't happen to you with quadrigraphs. > [[...]] doesn't have this property at all. Yes. Maximal quoting (double-quoting all literal text) does, though. Cheers, Ralf
