Follow-up Comment #1, bug #51286 (project make): If the value you are trying to assign to a variable is guaranteed to contain no spaces, you could use $(foreach var,<val>,<...>) but that is a bit of a hack of course.
More complete lexical scoping was proposed on the mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2019-12/msg00017.html) in the form of let expressions $(let <var>,<val>,<...>) but Paul Smith expressed his concern that let expressions may be to foreign to the audience of make and that they do not fit the overall design of make nicely. I have attached the working prototype for implementing let expressions, which lack documentation. Essentially, each word of <val> is assigned to each variable name in <var>, where the last variable name gets all remaining words in <val>. If there are more words in <var> than in <val>, the corresponding variables will be empty. (file #48701) _______________________________________________________ Additional Item Attachment: File name: let-function.patch Size:2 KB <https://savannah.gnu.org/file/let-function.patch?file_id=48701> _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51286> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
