Clarify language on handling of opening parenthesis.

* doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Give an example of
improper argument passing.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Juan Carlos Hurtado.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2010-01-08  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
+
+       Clarify language on handling of opening parenthesis.
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Give an example of
+       improper argument passing.
+       * THANKS: Update.
+       Reported by Juan Carlos Hurtado.
+
 2010-01-06  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
        Don't fail autom4te preselection test due to different Automake.

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 8d91a642b5cc7533b4ddaf13c15d9f2db5e1ee1a..ddb1db4976bcc870e045e8605057f26f53b55226 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ Jonathan Kamens             jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us
 Josef Tran                  josef@timetrackertechnology.com
 Josef Vukovic               josefvukovic@googlemail.com
 Joseph S. Myers             jsm28@cam.ac.uk
+Juan Carlos Hurtado         adso.lists@gmail.com
 Jules Colding               colding@42tools.com
 Julian Onions               j.onions@nexor.co.uk
 Julien Danjou               acid@debian.org

diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
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--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -1132,7 +1132,14 @@ need a means to distinguish literal strings from text to be expanded:
 quotation.
 
 When calling macros that take arguments, there must not be any white
-space between the macro name and the open parenthesis.  Arguments should
+space between the macro name and the open parenthesis.
+
+@example
+AC_INIT ([oops], [1.0]) # incorrect
+AC_INIT([hello], [1,0]) # good
+@end example
+
+Arguments should
 be enclosed within the quote characters @samp{[} and @samp{]}, and be
 separated by commas.  Any leading blanks or newlines in arguments are ignored,
 unless they are quoted.  You should always quote an argument that