Lisp implementation in GNU make

Re:Lisp implementation in GNU make by Tomte on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @10:12AM (#10220730)

I'd love if make was less capable of implementing a toy Lisp and more capable of quoting characters. Like quoting a left paren. I mean, at all.

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Re:Lisp implementation in GNU make by munificent on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @01:28PM (#10221906)

I think we should acknowledge how impressive it is implementing a Lisp of all languages in a language that doesn't let you easily quote parens!

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Re:Lisp implementation in GNU make by yarrel on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @12:34PM (#10221570)

IN GNU make there's \( , $(\() and lparen := \( ... $(lparen) .

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Re:Lisp implementation in GNU make by Tomte on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @03:19PM (#10222604)

\) didn't work for me (may depend on the context, don't know), and some Google searches and Stackoverflow answers later I settled for LEFTPAREN:=) and $(LEFTPAREN)

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