m4 problems

[Peter da Silva]

In article <2794 at aspect.UUCP> dave at aspect.UUCP (Dave Corcoran) writes:
> I thought that m4 was the cat's meow in pre-processors until I tried
> to use the "include" key-word for a quick and dirty include facility
> in the make(1) process. 
[macro preprocessing on the included file caused problems]

> Comments anyone? Commiseration welcome

define(`include',`define(`include',``include'')sinclude($1)undefine(`include')')

This is probably the biggest problem in M4. I did an implementation of it
for preprocessing RATFOR under RSX-11 once, and I made all the M4 keywords
begin with a dollar sign ($include(filename)...).
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