On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 11:28:49PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> >>>>> "Jos" == Jos Backus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Jos> My proposal for adding $^ as an alias for $> does not add any
> Jos> incompatibilities, neither with POSIX nor with any existing BSD
> Jos> make.
>
> Yes, and no. Adding new features doesn't break existing code, but it
> encourages new code to use the new features in a non-compatible way. The
> import of tcsh on top of csh is a classic of this. What we have
> works. It's not cool and/or sexy. But it works. If you *need* the
> features of GNUmake, use GNUmake.
Sigh. BSD make and GNU make already _share_ this same feature, it's just that
they _name_ it differently: $> v.s. $^. If POSIX would only adopt one (or
both) we could follow their lead and be done with it. But that's not going to
happen any time soon.
> --lyndon
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