> the value in the definition of a recursively > expanded variable is considered to be a "construct", therefore it can > also be regarded as a "deferred construct"?
Yes. I think it's useful to consider: nam = exp ... as a construct of at least two sections, because nam is immediately evaluated, while the evaluation of exp is deferred. > how can that value "appear in an immediate context"? It can't: that was my point in the last sentence of my previous post. Given: nam = exp It's when $(nam) appears in an immediate context that exp gets evaluated. exp needn't itself appear again. ________________________________ From: Maris Razvan <razvyboy2...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 13:19 To: Martin Dorey <martin.do...@hitachivantara.com> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org <bug-make@gnu.org> Subject: Re: Immediate and deferred expansion documentation rewording ***** EXTERNAL EMAIL ***** Thank you for your answer. I have some follow-up questions. > > > I understand the following > > Apart from the word "cmake", that chimed with my understanding. > > > a completely different meaning than the one used in the previous sentences > > I think the meanings are consistent if "a section of a construct" is itself a > "construct". Does this mean that the value in the definition of a recursively expanded variable is considered to be a "construct", therefore it can also be regarded as a "deferred construct"? > > > however one situations > > appertains only to "recursively expanded variables" and the other only > > to "recipes" > > Right, but I don't see that this lack of precision makes the prose > inaccurate. I bet you could smith a couple of replacement sentences that I > for one would find precise, accurate and clear. > > While you're there, it isn't the value of the recursively expanded variable > that appears in an immediate context, but a reference to the name of the > variable. > This issue is related to my previous question. If the "deferred construct" in the definition of a recursively expanded variable is the value (not the variable itself, as I presumed in my original question), how can that value "appear in an immediate context"?
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