On 14 March 2016 at 14:22, Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote:

>
>
> I wonder if we shouldn't change the way we handle expansion of recipe
> lines to meet peoples' expectations: instead of expanding all recipe
> lines first we would expand recipe lines one at a time, as we got ready
> to run that line.
>
> I dunno.  Opinions?
>
>
I think the whole idea of combining functions-with-side-effects and shell
commands should be heavily discouraged.  It's one more area for parallelism
issues to creep in.

Regards,

Tim
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