[Philip Hazel]
> On 13 Jul 1998, Harald Meland wrote:
> > Issuing a warning to some log would help a lot in figuring out what
> > the problem is.
>
> I suppose I could do that by checking at macro definition time. Come to
> think of it, perhaps I should *forbid* one macro from being a substring
> of another. How would that be?
Unless someone comes forward saying that they _want_ this to be
allowed (e.g. for the some "Obfuscated Exim" contest :), I'd say
forbidding is a reasonable action.
> In any case, there isn't really a mechanism for warning of
> configuration problems - writing to the log (even the panic log) may
> not get noticed very quickly.
If I had strange problems like the ones that result from the exim
macros, I'd go looking at the logs for help. Of course, not being
able to start up exim at all would make me look at the logs even
earlier :)
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Harald
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