[Omake] SVN Commit: OMake Build System (Rev. 9061)

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 11.04.2006 20:23, Jason Hickey wrote:

> The values_of_value is used everywhere.
> 
> Consider the current new behavior.
> 
> osh> X = *
> osh> $X
> ...ls output...
> osh> Y = $(addprefix *, .c)
> osh> $Y
> ls: *.c: no such file or directory
> 
> Once a sequence gets converted to an array, all special characters 
> become quoted.  This can be changed, but it would have to apply to all 
> arrays.
> 
> C[] =
>    ls
>    *
> 
> Either:
>    osh>$C
>    *: file not found
> or:
>    osh>$C
>    ...output from ls...

Hm, I am starting to feel overwhelmed by all the different choices that 
we need to make and even more varying consequences that we'd get 
depending on these choices. May be the two of us should try to write 
some sort of matrix of the most important choices on the whiteboard 
tomorrow and see if we can come up with something reasonably consistent?

-- 
Aleksey Nogin

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