Why not, like in shell, when some function/variable is undefined, call an internal one when defined? What’s the historic reason of this?
For instance, if there’s an occurence of $(several words) in the makefile, and the variable “several words” isn’t defined (that’s not a natural thing to do anyway), taking its firstword, and being equivalent to $(call several,words) might improve readability, be simpler, etc. then why not? And then I asked myself, if some functions weren’t deemed useful enough to get integrated as native primitives implemented in C, why do we still need to use the $(call fun,args) syntax when it could be done like shell and decide that any multi-word undefined reference could take its firstword and use it as call does? like if in “$(fun args)”, the variable “fun args” being if not undefinable, at least inaccessible, if the "fun" variable exists, make it equivalent to “$(call fun,args)”? Thank you for your time, hoping my message isn’t too much confuse or disrelevant… _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
