[Omake] SVN Commit: OMake Build System (Rev. 8894)

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 15.03.2006 16:45, Jason Hickey wrote:

> Log message:
>       "Fixed" treatment of quoted strings.
>       
>       Now that we treat quotations properly, there is a question about
>       how we should handle normal quotations.  For example, if you
>       write the following, there is only one file, but it has quotes
>       in the filename.
>       
>          X = $(file "hello world")
>       
>       We could instead give "<string>" exactly the same meaning as $"<string>".
>       
>       I don't see any surprises if we do so, we should think about doing it.
>       
>       This commit does not do so.  Instead we create an explicit value for
>       such strings and strip the quotes in the command-line tokenizer.

Are there any compelling reasons (other than backwards-compatibility, 
perhaps) not to leave the quotes as is?

Consider:

OCAMLFLAGS[] +=
    -pp
    "some_pre_processor some_pre_processor_flags"

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