On 5 November 2010 19:06, erik quanstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > ('&', '&&', '||', if, '|', 'and '`{}') with something general
>> > enough to replace mk, you'd be on to something.
>>
>> i did a mash-inspired version of mk as an inferno shell module once.
>> it required no new syntax (although it could be confused by
>> files named ":"...)
>
> what you did was very cool, but iirc this was in addition
> to, not replacing the standard && || ... bits. one
> could build pipelines and specify command order in one
> unified way, no?
well, all it knows about are commands, fds and environment
variables. if, && and || are all defined externally.
a "mkfile" using the sh mk module looked something like this:
#!/dis/sh
load mk
metarule %.dis : %.b {
limbo -gw $stem.b
}
TARGETS=x.dis y.dis z.dis
rule -V all : $TARGETS {
echo done
}
mk
it'd be trivial to add a bit of syntactic sugar
a la mash, to make the syntax more mk-like,
but it seemed better just to port mk itself.
