Re: New make modifiers: :C///W, :tW, and :[]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Barrett wrote:
>         :[0]    Select the entire string, but treat it as one big word.
>                 (Equivalent to :tw.)
>         :[*]    Select the entire string, treating it as a sequence of
>                 space-separated words.  (Undoes the effects of :[0];
>                 equivalent to :tw.)

Somebody suggested in private email that, by analogy with "$*" and "$@"
in /bin/sh, it would make more sense for :[*] to mean the entire string
as one big word, and for :[@] to mean the entire string as several
separate words.

--apb (Alan Barrett)

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