And I swear that's the last thing I want. :)
Indeed I understand these concerns.
So the consensus seems to be that I may go ahead and attempt to implement
this.
Other than the (let) and tail call optimization, I would like to know
your thoughts about
adding something like $(expr ) to evaluate integer expressions and
comparisons.
On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 14:01 -0500, Pete Dietl wrote:
> What do you all think about me attempting to implementing tail call
> elimination for recursive make functions? This combined with the
> proposed (let) construct would be rather powerful.
If it's straightforward it doesn't bother me. I'd have
Yes we do want make to be a first class language and have had to put up
with it being a b*** a*** to do computations and impossibly slow to use
$shell.
Regards,
Tim
On Mon, 11 May 2020, 20:47 Daniel Herring, wrote:
> Hi Pete,
>
> I like your enthusiasm and understand the benefit. If this can
Hi Pete,
I like your enthusiasm and understand the benefit. If this can be
done cleanly, then why not?
However, I am still vaguely uneasy about the idea. I don't think Make
will ever be a first-class programming language. Prolog was a better
general-purpose language, but more people use M
What do you all think about me attempting to implementing tail call
elimination for recursive make functions? This combined with the proposed
(let) construct would be rather powerful.
I did the first 10 exercises in Advent of Code 2019 in Make. but ran into
problems with blowing the stack from rec
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #57692 (project make):
> There is a token in .FEATURES for this capability already
Oh, pardon me, I accidentally took an old version for testing.
> Notice *groupd-target* here.
Splendid!
Would you care for a patch/PR of the manual explaining this, with an example
(alo
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #57692 (project make):
There is a token in .FEATURES for this capability already:
$ echo '$(info $(.FEATURES))' | ./make -f-
target-specific order-only second-expansion else-if shortest-stem undefine
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