Hi Pete, A month ago, I got in touch with Paul Smith about some paperwork needed for assigning copyright to the FSF. I did not hear back from him since and assume he is busy with other things at the moment. Since Make is quite old, I figured there is no rush.
Probably the most important thing for the let proposal will be to have good documentation. It should explain the behavior in a clear and concise way, with some examples, but maybe also give some more technical background: How it relates to lexical scoping (and how this can be tricky in the case of Make because expressions may not be evaluated at the moment a newcomer expects them to be), how it relates to `let` in other languages, and probably also how it relates to the Posix `read` shell command. Since this is at least as tricky to get right as the actual code, I chose to postpone it to after getting the green light for the feature. In other words: I have not written anything yet, so if you feel adventurous, you could draft something. It is often easier to criticize an existing text than to make a new one. Regards, - Jouke On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 3:43 PM Pete Dietl <petedi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey there. > I just wanted to touch base about the status of the proposal of a (let) > construct. I think it’ll be a very useful feature and want to see it make > progress. :) I’m willing to help with it if need be.
