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Re: Immediate and deferred expansion documentation rewording


From: Maris Razvan
Subject: Re: Immediate and deferred expansion documentation rewording
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 23:19:07 +0300

Thank you for your answer. I have some follow-up questions.

>
> >  I understand the following
>
> Apart from the word "cmake", that chimed with my understanding.
>
> > a completely different meaning than the one used in the previous sentences
>
> I think the meanings are consistent if "a section of a construct" is itself a 
> "construct".

Does this mean that the value in the definition of a recursively
expanded variable is considered to be a "construct", therefore it can
also be regarded as a "deferred construct"?

>
> > however one situations
> > appertains only to "recursively expanded variables" and the other only
> > to "recipes"
>
> Right, but I don't see that this lack of precision makes the prose 
> inaccurate.  I bet you could smith a couple of replacement sentences that I 
> for one would find precise, accurate and clear.
>
> While you're there, it isn't the value of the recursively expanded variable 
> that appears in an immediate context, but a reference to the name of the 
> variable.
>

This issue is related to my previous question. If the "deferred
construct" in the definition of a recursively expanded variable is the
value (not the variable itself, as I presumed in my original
question), how can that value "appear in an immediate context"?



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