Re: [jamboost] Signature change with-command-file rule

From: Thomas Witt (witt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-17 01:06:51

On Sunday 16 June 2002 17:28, David Abrahams wrote:
> From: "Thomas Witt" <witt_at_[hidden]>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to change the signature of the with-command-file rule
> > from ( rule-name targets * : sources * ) to ( rule-name targets + :
>
> options *
>
>
> Why not ( rule-name targets * : sources * : options * ) ? That would at
> least be perfectly backwards-compatible.

I rejected this ordering as it seemed to be just to unnatural (this is the 
best adjective I could think of, though it might still be the wrong one :-(). 
Having it this way is the easier fix, but I might be a constant source of 
trouble in the future, as people will get the ordering wrong. What do you 
think ?

Aside from that I do not understand why it is "targets *". IIUC the cmdfile 
name is targets[1] so it should be "targets +".

Thomas

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