James Youngman wrote:
Since the variable doesn't begin ac_ I know that Autoconf won't stamp on it, and as I understand it since it doesn't begin gl_, gnulib won't stamp on it. Is doing things this way my best stylistic choice?
Should work. For what it's worth, coreutils, grep, tar, and Emacs all use 'ws' instead of 'warnings', mostly because of the common ancestor in coreutils.
