Re: make best practises: parentheses for variable names

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Noel Yap wrote:

> My sincerest apologies.  I was mistaken.  I was thinking of the book
> "Managing Projects with Make" rather than "Managing Projects with
> GNU make".  I'll have to browse through a copy of the latter to form
> an opinion.
>
> Noel
>
> John Graham-Cumming wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 19:32, Noel Yap wrote:
> >
> > > IMNSHO, that's the worst book on make I"ve ever seen.  Unfortunately,
> > > aside from the FSF publication of the info files, it's the only one
> > > I've ever seen.
> >
> >
> > I'm currently in the middle of writing a review of the 3rd edition. What is
> > it that you dislike about it?
> >
> > John.

will that review be available for browsing when you're done with it?
that's the book i'm going through at the moment and, except for the
occasional pedantic complaint i have, i think it's an exceptionally
well-written book.  it's filled in a lot of those niggling missing
bits.

rday