m4 complains about undocumented, unimplemented functions

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From: Arnold Robbins
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1985 18:42

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This happened to me on vax running 4.1BSD, but I would be willing to bet it
will happen with any version of m4.

I was using m4 to process some text (/lib/cpp wasn't working right for some
reason), and the text had the word `shift' in it.  M4 told me "shift: not
implemented yet".  I just put it in m4 quotes (`'), and it worked fine, but
I really think it should just ignore what isn't documented or implemented.
I checked some V7 source, and this goes all the way back to there.  I can't
even blame it on Berkeley!
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Subject: m4 complains about undocumented, unimplemented functions
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