Thank you for your answer. I have some follow-up questions. > > > I understand the following > > Apart from the word "cmake", that chimed with my understanding. > > > a completely different meaning than the one used in the previous sentences > > I think the meanings are consistent if "a section of a construct" is itself a > "construct".
Does this mean that the value in the definition of a recursively expanded variable is considered to be a "construct", therefore it can also be regarded as a "deferred construct"? > > > however one situations > > appertains only to "recursively expanded variables" and the other only > > to "recipes" > > Right, but I don't see that this lack of precision makes the prose > inaccurate. I bet you could smith a couple of replacement sentences that I > for one would find precise, accurate and clear. > > While you're there, it isn't the value of the recursively expanded variable > that appears in an immediate context, but a reference to the name of the > variable. > This issue is related to my previous question. If the "deferred construct" in the definition of a recursively expanded variable is the value (not the variable itself, as I presumed in my original question), how can that value "appear in an immediate context"? _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
