Re: Enhancement of conditionals?

[Ken Smith]

I like the idea of adding something like Guile to Gmake.  It would make
generating complicated makefiles more straightforward.

Ken Smith

Noel Yap wrote:
> Boris Kolpackov wrote:
> > "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > That might be true, but Lisp is really a very good language for a make
> > > scripting language, since much of make's behavior, at least in terms of
> > > expansion of variables, etc. is somewhat Lisp-like already.
> > >     
> > Just a thought: rather than adding a lisp-like language to make wouldn't
> > it be easier to implement make-like inference system in lisp?
> >
> > Comments?
> >   
>
> The meat of make is rule-based so I would think that replacing this with a functional programming language would not be a good thing.
>
> MTC,
> Noel