Re: Environment variables in makefiles with DOS

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Paul Smith <address@hidden>:


> What I've thought about is using low ASCII values for these tokens.
> This would still allow makefiles to be written in UTF-8, with the
> exception of some special characters.  We would need to look at the
> possible characters and choose the ones we want carefully (probably
> after talking to folks who know how these characters are used), but I
> think we should be able to find enough characters that aren't needed
> otherwise.

What about something like $"/path/to/my file"$; where $" is the token 
to indicate the beginning of the word and "$ indicates the end of the 
word?  Then $"This"is"my"file"$ is a file containing the quote 
character.  And it can be carried to other things besides a file 
$"treat me as one word"$.  I know that this suggestion is a two 
character token but it leaves all characters able to be embedded in the 
tokenized one word.

Earnie