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| author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2009-04-21 21:55:57 -0600 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2009-04-22 12:56:43 -0600 |
| commit | df44f13f5e4722cf9bae00e906e1c69fd3354e77 (patch) | |
| tree | e36dc8d291c243bb3a21fb460a3d976632d23665 | |
| parent | 9911d26bfd1b962cb3f1a8faa9f456d1a2499bd4 (diff) | |
| download | m4-df44f13f5e4722cf9bae00e906e1c69fd3354e77.tar.gz | |
Be more explicit about default quoting characters.
* doc/m4.texinfo (Quoted strings): Call out characters by name.
* THANKS: Update.
Suggested by Mehul Sanghvi.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
(cherry picked from commit 1f6f9cd34d9b8b1bf369e4cb749145256d0f33d7)
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | THANKS | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/m4.texinfo | 4 |
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2009-04-21 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + Be more explicit about default quoting characters. + * doc/m4.texinfo (Quoted strings): Call out characters by name. + * THANKS: Update. + Suggested by Mehul Sanghvi. + 2009-04-16 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> Use gnulib rename module. @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ Massimo Dal Zotto dz@cs.unitn.it Matt Kraai kraai@debian.org Matthew Woehlke mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net Matthias Rabe rabe@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de +Mehul Sanghvi mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com Michael Fetterman mafetter@ichips.intel.com Michael L. Welcome welcome@bigbird.llnl.gov Mike Andrews kramer@fragile.termfrost.org diff --git a/doc/m4.texinfo b/doc/m4.texinfo index d641eebb..6408881b 100644 --- a/doc/m4.texinfo +++ b/doc/m4.texinfo @@ -1181,7 +1181,9 @@ changed at any time, using the builtin macro @code{changesyntax}. @cindex string, quoted A quoted string is a sequence of characters surrounded by quote strings, defaulting to -@samp{`} and @samp{'}, where the nested begin and end quotes within the +@samp{`} (grave-accent, also known as back-tick, with UCS value U0060) +and @samp{'} (apostrophe, also known as single-quote, with UCS value +U0027), where the nested begin and end quotes within the string are balanced. The value of a string token is the text, with one level of quotes stripped off. Thus |