[Omake] SVN Commit: OMake Build System (Rev. 8888)

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 15.03.2006 14:21, Jason Hickey wrote:

> Aleksey Nogin wrote:
> 
>>>> X[] =
>>>>   echo
>>>>   foo bar*
> 
> 
> Another point the mention, I assume this is globbing only, not for shell 
> operators.
> 
>    osh>X[] =
>       echo
>       Hello
>       >
>       /dev/null
> 
>    osh>$X
>    Hello > /dev/null
> 
> I believe this choice is appropriate, that command-line parsing is static.

But do you still allow passing full command lines in regular variables? 
I want to be able to do things like

pipeline{text, where) =
    echo $(text) $(where)

pipeline(foo, > /tmp/foo)
pipeline(bar, | sendmail bar)

I do not mind having to add some sort of "unquote", but it would be nice 
to retain this general functionality in some reasonable way (the osh 
script uses it, for example).

P.S. On the subject of unquote - do you [plan to] provide some easy way 
of turning a quotation into something that would be broken apart?

-- 
Aleksey Nogin

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