Edition 0.75, last updated 17 January 2020, of The GNU Make Manual, for GNUmake version 4.3, PDF document downloaded newly from GNU Make web
Page 68, ch. 6.5 Setting Variables Hi, Mentioned chapter quoted: " variable names are considered to have the empty string as a value". I wonder is not only a variable by itself which has a value, it was also variable name by itself to have a value. That's for me a new property of variable names. Me sees variable name as one of variable properties/attributes. B.R. kdt