On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 4:23 PM, Ulf Magnusson <ulfali...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Sam Ravnborg <s...@ravnborg.org> wrote: >> Will the following be equal: >> >> $(foo,abc,$(x),$(y)) >> $(foo, abc, $(x), $(y)) >> >> make is rather annoying as space is significant, but there seems no good >> reason >> for kconfig to inheritate this. >> So unless there are good arguments consider alloing the spaces. >> If the current implmentation already supports optional spaces then I just >> missed >> it whie reviewing. >> >> Sam > > +1 from me. > > I also find the rules for whitespace in Make confusing, and always > have to look them up when doing trickier stuff. Maybe they're the > result of people not considering whitespace initially, and stuff > getting tacked on later. GNU Make adds some alternate syntaxes with > quotes. > > I was going to mention shell, but it looks like you already did. :) > > If we go with Make-like syntax, maybe we could at least have a variant > with fewer whitespace gotchas. > > Cheers, > Ulf
Maybe it'd be a pain to implement, but something like $(foo $(x) "two words" "interpolated $(stuff)") seems pretty nice, with three arguments there. For variables too: x = foo y = "two words" Or have mandatory quotes, but yeah, bit spammy there maybe. Cheers, Ulf
