arnold@gatech.UUCP (Arnold Robbins) (03/14/85)
This happened to me on vax running 4.1BSD, but I would be willing to bet it
will happen with any version of m4.
I was using m4 to process some text (/lib/cpp wasn't working right for some
reason), and the text had the word `shift' in it. M4 told me "shift: not
implemented yet". I just put it in m4 quotes (`'), and it worked fine, but
I really think it should just ignore what isn't documented or implemented.
I checked some V7 source, and this goes all the way back to there. I can't
even blame it on Berkeley!
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Arnold Robbins
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Help advance the state of Computer Science: Nuke a PR1ME today!tmb@talcott.UUCP (Thomas M. Breuel) (03/16/85)
> I was using m4 to process some text (/lib/cpp wasn't working right for some > reason), and the text had the word `shift' in it. M4 told me "shift: not > implemented yet". I just put it in m4 quotes (`'), and it worked fine, but Well, I needed 'shift' and '$*' for 'S'. It takes about 5' to implement them. I don't know why anyone bothered putting in the printf's... If you need the diffs, mail me a letter. Thomas.