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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 10:31:27 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) |
>>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
>>> @@ -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;
Akim> In Make talk, these are really macros.
adl> Yep, but it will be less confusing if with reserve the word
adl> `macro' for Autoconf macros. The manual already states that
adl> "Makefile macros" are called "variables" in Automake.
Great. Then you might want to s/macro/variable/ in automake.in itself.