Re: Conditional append operator (was: Re: New conditional assignment facility)

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 2024-02-03 at 17:45 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> Here's how I think the "append changes the type of the variable"
> option works:

I should have been more clear on my nomenclature.  In my examples the
column on the right is meant to describe what make has in its memory
for a variable.  So if the right column contains:

    FOO := a$b x$y

that means that make knows a variable FOO, it is a simple variable, and
its value is the string "a$b x$y".

I didn't mean that the right column should be interpreted as an
equivalent assignment a user might write in a makefile; so the above is
NOT meant to say that you would expand the right side and get
"FOO := a x".

Sorry for the possible confusion.

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