%% "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
rpjd> i just ran across a situation where it would have been
rpjd> enormously handy to be able to quickly remove arbitrary items
rpjd> from a list of items.
rpjd> in the same way that variables support the operations
rpjd> VAR = fred barney
rpjd> VAR += wilma betty
rpjd> it would have been nice to be able to do:
rpjd> VAR -= wilma bambam
rpjd> the semantics being to remove (a la "filter-out") an arbitrary
rpjd> set of matching strings. if an item is not a word in the
rpjd> string, then nothing happens. no harm, no foul, with the result
rpjd> of the above being that
rpjd> VAR = fred barney betty
rpjd> i realize i can get the same effect by, say, writing a macro
rpjd> involving "filter-out", but is there a reason the above couldn't
rpjd> be done?
Why do you need a macro? Just write it; that's what filter-out is for:
VAR := $(filter-out wilma bambam,$(VAR))
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