On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 06:33:01PM +0100, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 02:50:59PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Marc Espie wrote: > > > > > Fix your eyes, seriously. > > > > > > It's a case of habit. I used to see VAR=value as more natural. > > > > > > But the bad consequences made me change that habit, and now I have > > > absolutely > > > no problem with the new style. > > > > > > Like I said, it's not an aesthetic choice. > > > > > > We're talking trappings of Makefile semantics, and avoidance of possible > > > problems. > > > > Don't think that it's just me. Everyone has always been annoyed by this, > > it's not like I'm ranting alone in my corner. > As expressed before, I concur. It's annoying. > I understand the need for spaces with 'X=' (replace X with ! or whatever), > but not for regular '='.
So, speaking of eye cancer, what's better: FUBAR= a ZOMG += d BAR ?= b ZOOOM= c or FUBAR = a ZOMG += d BAR ?= b ZOOOM = c to me, definitely the latter. space before sign, tab after, what's wrong with that ? Landry
