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Re: FYI: catch variable names starting with `_' (PR/291).
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: FYI: catch variable names starting with `_' (PR/291). |
Date: |
09 Jul 2002 09:23:43 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) |
| Strictly speaking, the _am_installdirs variable doesn't need to
| be renamed because it's never output, but it seems cleaner to
| keeps things simple and apply to same rule to everybody. (BTW,
| reading the code I've not found where this variable is stopped
| from being output;
It used to be related to += which meant you'd have to wait for the
output sign.
| there are a two `Accumulating variables must
| not be output' comments, but they seem misplaced.)
That's probably history now, but `accumulating' referred to +=.
Honestly, I fail to see to why these comments are there.
| @@ -5927,8 +5927,13 @@
| {
| my ($var, $var_is_am, $type, $cond, $value, $where) = @_;
|
| - err $where, "bad characters in macro name `$var'"
| + err $where, "bad characters in variable name `$var'"
| if $var !~ /$MACRO_PATTERN/o;
In Make talk, these are really macros.