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8.3.3 Evaluation Macros
The following macros give some control over the order of the evaluation
by adding or removing levels of quotes. They are meant for hard-core M4
programmers.
— Macro: m4_dquote ( arg1, ...)
Return the arguments as a quoted list of quoted arguments.
— Macro: m4_quote ( arg1, ...)
Return the arguments as a single entity, i.e., wrap them into a pair of
quotes.
The following example aims at emphasizing the difference between (i), not
using these macros, (ii), using m4_quote, and (iii), using
m4_dquote.
$ cat example.m4
# Overquote, so that quotes are visible.
m4_define([show], [$[]1 = [$1], $[]@ = [$@]])
m4_divert(0)dnl
show(a, b)
show(m4_quote(a, b))
show(m4_dquote(a, b))
$ autom4te -l m4sugar example.m4
$1 = a, $@ = [a],[b]
$1 = a,b, $@ = [a,b]
$1 = [a],[b], $@ = [[a],[b]]
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