Follow-up Comment #2, bug #18335 (project make):
Oh, BTW, I would suggest ...
$(math $(VAL)+($(FOO)/4))
... that a lisp-like (non-reverse Polish) notation might be more consistent
with the general style of make here:
$(plus $(VAL),$(divide $(FOO),4))
cheers,
DaveK
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #17881 (project make):
Actually, make _does_ guarantee that rules will be processed in left-to-right
order. If you never use parallelism, you can be sure your rules will always
run in that order.
If you do use parallelism, though, obviously more than one of these
