Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Johann Klammer Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Basic Lexing Question Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 02:38:44 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 10 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <22-06-088@comp.compilers> References: <22-06-086@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="81686"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: lex, macros Posted-Date: 29 Jun 2022 20:46:10 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:3105 On 06/29/2022 07:11 PM, Jon Forrest wrote: > The following line is from a makefile accepted by gmake: > > onefile: $(AVAR) Don't they have functions that go inside the parens to do stuff like wildcard searches and string operations? [Sure, but they have to run during one of the phases that scans the input -John]