On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 08:26:37PM +0200, Anton Lindqvist wrote: > Hi, > I count six operators so instead stop mentioning the total number of > operators. >
i agree. we need to stop trying to list how many things we currently support: it's a recipe for madness. i've added a comment inline though... > While here, add a missing `Pp` to make the display block consistent with > the one above. > > Comments? OK? > > Index: make.1 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/make/make.1,v > retrieving revision 1.125 > diff -u -p -r1.125 make.1 > --- make.1 19 Apr 2017 09:32:46 -0000 1.125 > +++ make.1 30 Jul 2017 18:24:55 -0000 > @@ -511,8 +511,7 @@ They are also called > in various texts. > For portability, only periods, underscores, digits and letters should be > used for variable names. > -The five operators that can be used to assign values to variables are as > -follows: > +The operators that can be used to assign values to variables are as follows: shorter still: The following operators can be used to assign values to variables: > .Bl -tag -width Ds > .It Ic \&= > Assign the value to the variable. > @@ -575,6 +574,7 @@ Combinations that do not make sense, suc > .Bd -literal -offset indent > A +!!= cmd > .Ed > +.Pp > will not work. > .Pp > Variables are expanded by surrounding the variable name with either >
