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From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Basic Lexing Question
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 10:11:54 -0700 (PDT)
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The following line is from a makefile accepted by gmake:

onefile: $(AVAR)

I'm wondering what the ramification are of lexing what's on the right of the
colon as a single string and then breaking it apart later, as opposed to
returning a more detailed sequence of tokens, such as DOLLAR LPAREN NAME
RPAREN.

gmake appears to do the former, I'm guessing because it means a simpler
grammar but that seems like just postponing the hard work until later.

Cordially,
Jon Forrest