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| author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2008-04-21 16:27:01 -0600 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2008-04-21 16:37:07 -0600 |
| commit | 5b54035664c95dbd4adbce0bdefd48eb3aa7bdd3 (patch) | |
| tree | 954d2779d0ffa887c9d3567f69583f759e907707 | |
| parent | 97a7769765cde8e9bbff022001e475b07f7bbaf2 (diff) | |
| download | m4-5b54035664c95dbd4adbce0bdefd48eb3aa7bdd3.tar.gz | |
Fix spelling of attribution to Christopher Strachey.
* doc/m4.texinfo (History, Inhibiting Invocation): Fix typo.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Fernando Carrijo.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
(cherry picked from commit 05528e98e0257bcccbb5001b8ff09293e42d19b6)
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | THANKS | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/m4.texinfo | 4 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2008-04-21 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + Fix spelling of attribution to Christopher Strachey. + * doc/m4.texinfo (History, Inhibiting Invocation): Fix typo. + * THANKS: Update. + Reported by Fernando Carrijo. + 2008-04-17 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> Fix testsuite bug when SIGPIPE is ignored. @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ Eric Backus ericb@lsid.hp.com Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net Eric Fischer enf1@ellis.uchicago.edu Erick Branderhorst Erick.Branderhorst@asml.nl +Fernando Carrijo fcarrijo1980@gmail.com François Pinard pinard@iro.umontreal.ca Frank Schwidom schwidom@impernet.de Gary Affonso Gary_Affonso@iqinc.com diff --git a/doc/m4.texinfo b/doc/m4.texinfo index 280d633a..69ec5dc1 100644 --- a/doc/m4.texinfo +++ b/doc/m4.texinfo @@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ debugging their @code{m4} scripts than doing real work. Beware that @cindex history of @code{m4} @cindex @acronym{GNU} M4, history of @code{GPM} was an important ancestor of @code{m4}. See -C. Stratchey: ``A General Purpose Macro generator'', Computer Journal +C. Strachey: ``A General Purpose Macro generator'', Computer Journal 8,3 (1965), pp.@: 225 ff. @code{GPM} is also succinctly described into David Gries classic ``Compiler Construction for Digital Computers''. @@ -1425,7 +1425,7 @@ with no arguments. @section Preventing macro invocation An innovation of the @code{m4} language, compared to some of its -predecessors (like Stratchey's @code{GPM}, for example), is the ability +predecessors (like Strachey's @code{GPM}, for example), is the ability to recognize macro calls without resorting to any special, prefixed invocation character. While generally useful, this feature might sometimes be the source of spurious, unwanted macro calls. So, @acronym{GNU} |