Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by city41 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:25PM
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I'm really glad software development has largely moved away from the terse names and symbols that used to be so common. I mean patsubst? What a terrible function name! At the very least I would have added the 'h' in path.
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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by cesarb on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:39PM
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> I mean patsubst? What a terrible function name! At the very least I would have added the 'h' in path.
The "pat" in "patsubst" means pattern, not path, so adding an h would be incorrect. (https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Text-Func...)
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by ori_b on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:42PM
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Why would you add an 'h' to 'pattern'?
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by city41 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:47PM
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I think that just supports my argument, really. I've never really used makefiles. The blog post talked about using patsubst to change a path. The name of the function essentially gives no clue at all what it does.
Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects
by wruza on Thursday March 01, 2018 @12:51AM
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"the blog post talked"
Isn't that the problem with using blog posts as educational sources?
(I'm happy I was learning all my toolkit long before blogs became a thing. It's hard to open and read Physics book, when someone on YT talks funny about its second chapter.)