Re: deferred evaulation of function calls

[Noel Yap]

':=' evaluates the RHS at the time of the assignment.  '=' evaluates the RHS at 
the time of actual use.

HTH,
Noel

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   can you distinguish between immediate and deferred function calls the 
> way you can between immediate and deferred references to variables?  the
> docs are confusing on this.  in section 4.4.1, "Wildcard Examples", there 
> is an example of the "wildcard" function:
>
>   objects := $(wildcard *.o)
>
> the ":=" assignment seems to suggest that this is explicitly an immediate
> assignment (a la variables).  but a quick test shows that using "=" seems
> to produce the same effect.  so what's the difference when it comes to 
> function calls?  the chapter on function calls doesn't address this, it
> just launches into function examples.
>
> rday
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Help-make mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make