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Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....)
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David A. Wheeler |
Subject: |
Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....) |
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Sun, 09 Jun 2019 23:46:12 -0400 (EDT) |
On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:56:04 +0900, Masahiro Yamada <address@hidden> wrote:
> It is a design.
Sure, but we can add to it.
> In summary, there is slight difference between
> a variable and a user-defined function.
> Omitting 'call' makes obscure the difference between them.
I don't think it obscures the difference at all.
The presence of parameters makes the difference quite obvious.
Let's use the examples from:
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Call-Function.html
# Current:
foo = $(call reverse,a,b)
# Proposed alternative:
foo = $(reverse a,b)
# Current:
LS := $(call pathsearch,ls)
# Proposed alternative:
LS := $(pathsearch ls)
# Current:
o = $(call map,origin,o map MAKE)
# Proposed alternative:
o = $(map origin,o map MAKE)
There is *one* case I can agree would be obscure.
That would be a space with NO parameters. E.g., $(hello ).
That's more likely to be an error than a function call.
So perhaps the short form should require something other than a ")"
right after the name's whitespace; if you want to call a function
with no parameters (why?) you'd be required to use $(call NAME).
I'd be happy with that limitation on the syntactic sugar.
--- David A. Wheeler
- Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....), David A. Wheeler, 2019/06/09
- Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....), Paul Smith, 2019/06/09
- Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....), Masahiro Yamada, 2019/06/10
- Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....), Masahiro Yamada, 2019/06/11
- Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....), David A. Wheeler, 2019/06/11
- Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....), Tim Murphy, 2019/06/13
- Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....), David A. Wheeler, 2019/06/13
- Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....), Masahiro Yamada, 2019/06/13
- Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....), Tim Murphy, 2019/06/14
- Re: Idea: Allow $(name ...) as an abbrevation of $(call name ....), Masahiro Yamada, 2019/06/13