On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 8:16 AM Paul Smith wrote:
> I don't understand the point you are making about +!=.
If all new operators behave the same as +=, when the variable exists, then
+!= is not needed, because +!= would do the same as +=$(shell ...).
Based on your explanations, it looks like you
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 4:59 PM Martin Dorey
wrote:
>
> Why is that?
>
>
> I imagine because that's how, to my surprise, it is today:
>
> martind@stormy:~/tmp/make-conditional-assignment-2024-01-22$ cat Makefile
> A := 42
> A += $(shell hello)
> martind@stormy:~/tmp/make-conditional-assignment-202
* Why is that?
I imagine because that's how, to my surprise, it is today:
martind@stormy:~/tmp/make-conditional-assignment-2024-01-22$ cat Makefile
A := 42
A += $(shell hello)
martind@stormy:~/tmp/make-conditional-assignment-2024-01-22$ make
make: hello: No such file or directory
make: *** No
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 2:16 PM Paul Smith wrote:
> > If the only goal was to allow +:= create a simple variable, then can
> > we do the following?
> > "If no variable with this name exists, then +:= creates a simple
> > variable, and +:::= creates an immediately-expanded-and-escaped
> > variable.
On Sun, 2024-01-21 at 14:22 -0500, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
> Let us clarify the goal of these enhancements?
> i assumed that the goal of these enhancements was to allow code like
> hello+:=$(world)
> create 'hello' as a simple variable, if 'hello' does not exist yet.
>
> After reading your != exam
