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Re: Last patch reviewed.
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Paul Smith |
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Re: Last patch reviewed. |
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Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:21:14 -0400 |
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:12 +0000, Boris Kolpackov wrote:
> While I agree "not-inherit" is a bad keyword, "local" has a bit
> different connotation, as being opposite to "global". And GNU make
> already has an opposite to "global" which is "target specific".
> Maybe "private"? In this case we can say that a variable is
> private to a particular context (global, or target-specific) and is
> not "inherited" by other contexts.
I'm not sure I see the different connotation "local" has, but "private"
sounds fine to me.
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