[Omake] handling of white space

[Achim Blumensath]

Hello,

Jason Hickey wrote:
> On Aug 16, 2007, at 11:22 PM, Achim Blumensath wrote:
> 
> >Jason Hickey wrote:
> >>This is intended.  Non-leading whitespace in a definition is
> >>significant, ...
> >
> >What was the reason for this decision?
> 
> It comes from compatibility with GNU make.
[...]
> However, I would agree that this choice is irritating, and it might  
> be better to diverge from GNU make here.

Yes, I would be in favour of this change. (OMake is supposed to be a
saner alternative to make.) If you really want a variable with trailing
white space you can use quotes.

Achim
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