Re: multiple variable reference

[hanche@ams.sunysb.edu (Harald Hanche-Olsen)]

Paul> if you have

Paul> 	foo = a b
Paul> 	$foo = 1 2 3

Paul> then it makes sense that

Paul> 	$foo

Paul> would expand to

Paul> 	1 2 3

I would certainly hope $foo will expand to `a b', while $$foo should
expand the way you said.

Paul> opinions?

Sounds reasonable to me, otherwise.

BTW, one side effect of having multiple assignments, I realized
lately, is that the user who mistakenly types

; make CC=gcc all

will be surprised to see nothing at all happening.  Now, at least an
error message will result.  Hmmm...

set-make = @ {throw error $0 'Did you want to run make?'}  #  :-)

- Harald