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Re: Order of expansion of recipe lines


From: Tim Murphy
Subject: Re: Order of expansion of recipe lines
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:43:54 +0000



On 14 March 2016 at 14:22, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:


I wonder if we shouldn't change the way we handle expansion of recipe
lines to meet peoples' expectations: instead of expanding all recipe
lines first we would expand recipe lines one at a time, as we got ready
to run that line.

I dunno.  Opinions?


I think the whole idea of combining functions-with-side-effects and shell commands should be heavily discouraged.  It's one more area for parallelism issues to creep in.

Regards,

Tim

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