From: Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: m4: better error messages for define/pushdef
To: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Cc: Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>, tech@openbsd.org
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 19:41:16 +0100

On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 08:57:55AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> The new messages don't really match the tone of other messages,
> which don't contain verb structure.  They all follow the form of "situation.",
> with the situational implication that this error.
> 
> Shorter form "define macro with empty name." and "pushdef macro with empty name."
> would match others like "too many include files." and "bad base %d for conversion."
> better.


Sure, this works for me as well.