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Re: Enhancement of conditionals?
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Noel Yap |
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Re: Enhancement of conditionals? |
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Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:14:02 -0500 |
I agree. Adding Guile to support GNU makefile macros would be a great thing.
What I had meant in my previous post was that replacing the rule-based portion
with a LISP-like language would be a bad thing.
Noel
> Ken Smith wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
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- RE: Enhancement of conditionals?, (continued)
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RE: Enhancement of conditionals?, Shah, Bijal, 2004/03/19