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Re: [Fwd: isatty function?]


From: mst
Subject: Re: [Fwd: isatty function?]
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:34:53 +0200
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Paul D. Smith wrote:

Yes of course.  As I said, I was only pointing out that the specific
examples you gave could already be performed fairly easily.


My intention for the future is to integrate an embedded scripting
language into GNU make.  I am not interested in inventing a whole new
language to use with make, which is why I've avoided adding lots of new
functions.  And an embedded scripting language will be a lot faster and
more flexible than shell or system calls.

Nevertheless I have not decided yes or no on a system function.

Something like linking in a perl interpreter and then doing $(perl ....) ?
Sould be fairly easy ... but the syntax wont fit well with make (escaping every $ for perl ... hmm ...) for this to be practical , there could be an option for make which specifies which character to use instead of
$ for characters?







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