meaning of # in the variable used as a list of targets

[Arkadiusz Drabczyk]

In the manual it says:

"Within a @code{define} directive, comments are not ignored during the
definition of the variable, but rather kept intact in the value of the
variable.  When the variable is expanded they will either be treated
as @code{make} comments or as recipe text, depending on the context in
which the variable is evaluated."

But take the following example:

define var
1 2 3 #something
endef

$(info $$var is [${var}])

$(var):
        echo target from a variable

It's possible to call \#something target:

$ make \#something
$var is [1 2 3 #something]
echo target from a variable
target from a variable

$(var) is not a _recipe text_ so according to the manual it should be
treated as a comment like that:

1 2 3 #something:
        echo target from a variable

which should result in

$ make \#something
$var is [1 2 3 #something]
Makefile:7: *** missing separator.  Stop.

right? Is this an oversight in the manual?

-- 
Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org>