Re: [jamboost] Boost.Build V2, load behaviour part 2.

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-31 13:49:42

On 2002-03-31 at 01:31 PM, david.abrahams_at_[hidden] (David Abrahams) wrote:

>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rene Rivera" <grafik666_at_[hidden]>
>
>> I was just trying out different things :-) Right now it looks like so:
>>
>> $(module-name),$(name).brief = $(first-sentence) ;
>> $(module-name),$(name).docs = $(docs) ;
>>
>> for local line in $($(module-name),$(name).docs)
>> {
>> ECHO " "$(line) ;
>> }
>>
>> Which is almost back where we started. But it is readable and terse.
>
>I almost hate to mention this, but doesn't
>
> $($(module-name).$(name).docs)
>
>have a certain ring to it, especially since $(modulename).$(name) makes
>sense?

Yea, it does make sense.

>> Oh, yea, it seems fine to me. I plan on avoiding globals anyway ;-)
>The only
>> drawback I see is that .my-global is somewhat less visibly obvious
>than
>> *my-global.
>
>what about your pseudo-functions? Those are globals, no? I assume you
>meant to exclude those from your previous statement. I wonder if it
>wouldn't be better just to be consistent:
>
> $(.$(module-name).$(name).docs)
>
>?? Just musing here. No strong position on it.

No, I was just using the code that I happen to be writting to play with the
various syntax options :-)

But yes, Consistent is good!

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