> At the risk of stating the obvious, note that there is a trivial > work-around for this - there is nothing special about dot in patterns, > so you could merge the dot into what % matches to make it non-empty:
It might be acceptable to give up a character from either end of the prefix (or suffix) for my toy example. Will the pattern match be a bit more flexible with this trick than what was originally intended? I imagine that direct support would be nice for a placeholder which can be treated as optional in such an use case. Regards, Markus _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
