Re: make: :: embeded in targets

To: der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>
Subject: Re: make: :: embeded in targets
From: Martin Husemann <martin%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:00:27 +0100

On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:50:55AM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> It also, relevantly to this discussion, says that
> 
>      Applications shall select target names from the set of characters
>      consisting solely of periods, underscores, digits, and alphabetics
>      from the portable character set [...]

From a language simplicity and clarity point of view, I would say allowing
colons in target names sounds like a realy bad idea.

Martin

References:
- make: :: embeded in targets
  - From: Simon J. Gerraty
- Re: make: :: embeded in targets
  - From: Simon J. Gerraty
- Re: make: :: embeded in targets
  - From: der Mouse

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