[Omake] Scoping

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 08.11.2006 20:22, Nathaniel Gray wrote:

> I thought I understood the scoping rules, but I don't understand why
> this works:
> 
> OCAMLINCLUDES += foo/bar
> x = $(OCamlProgram a, b)
> 
> but when you substitute this:
> 
> FancyOCamlProgram(a, b)
>     OCAMLINCLUDES += foo/bar
>     return $(OCamlProgram $(a), $(b))
> x = $(FancyOCamlProgram a, b)
> 
> You don't get "-I foo/bar" in the arguments to ocamlc.  Isn't the
> (re-)definition of OCAMLINCLUDES the closest dynamically-scoped
> definition during the call to OCamlProgram?

By default, the variables defined inside functions are private
(statically scoped) ones. You probably need to use public.OCAMLINCLUDES
here...

Aleksey