6 Sep
2006
6 Sep
'06
10:04 p.m.
Hi Ralf, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
The expansion of $(rm /) is quite distinct from that one of ${rm /}, there. I've embarked on a little holy war since when I actually ran into a related problem with command substitution. I believe it's evil to allow command substitution where it doesn't make sense.
Sure, but that's not within a makefile.
Sure, you know that and I know that. But novice hackers don't know that, and, under extreme conditions, get bitten by the problem. This is all just about style and conventions. Cheers -richy. -- Richard B. Kreckel <http://www.ginac.de/~kreckel/>