Hi Paul,
On 1/11/24 14:38, Paul Smith wrote:
On Thu, 2024-01-11 at 14:28 +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
alx@debian:~/tmp$ cat Makefile
var ?= foo
var ?+= bar
$(info $(var))
alx@debian:~/tmp$ make-9000
foo bar
make: *** No targets. Stop.
On Thu, 2024-01-11 at 14:28 +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > > alx@debian:~/tmp$ cat Makefile
> > > var ?= foo
> > > var ?+= bar
> > > $(info $(var))
> > > alx@debian:~/tmp$ make-9000
> > > foo bar
> > > make: *** No targets. Stop.
> > > alx@debian:~/tmp$ make-9000 var=foo
> >
On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 02:25:25PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 02:22:19PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > Hi Paul!
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 01:44:19AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> > > I've implemented a new capability for conditional assignments (not
> > > pu
On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 02:22:19PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Paul!
>
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 01:44:19AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> > I've implemented a new capability for conditional assignments (not
> > pushed yet).
> >
> > After these changes, a "?" can precede any type of assignme
Hi Paul!
On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 01:44:19AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> I've implemented a new capability for conditional assignments (not
> pushed yet).
>
> After these changes, a "?" can precede any type of assignment
> operation, not just "=", and make it conditional (that is, it only
> takes e
On Thu, 2024-01-11 at 01:44 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> I've implemented a new capability for conditional assignments (not
> pushed yet).
>
> After these changes, a "?" can precede any type of assignment
> operation, not just "=", and make it conditional (that is, it only
> takes effect if the vari
> I'm pretty uncomfortable with this inversion of expectation,
Indeed.
This inversion sounds confusing and that use case is already possible,
just not with a 'shortcut' notation.
> Or maybe we should say the "?+=" operator isn't supported and give an
> error since it has no function
that also le
