On 08/07/2012 11:53 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 08/08/2012 07:25, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> Actually, that raises an important point, because the constructed
>> variable names like 'mysql55-client_SET' should perhaps have
>> syntactically significant characters like '-', '+' mapped to '_'
>
> Interesting. A very quick test shows that make(1) variables seem to
> work just fine despite those significant characters:
>
> % cat Makefile
>
> Foo-bar= wibble
> Baz+QUX= flonk
>
> all:
> @echo ${Foo-bar}
> @echo ${Baz+QUX}
>
> % make
> wibble
> flonk
It would be less good for those of us who manipulate such things in
Bourne shell. :)
Doug
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