[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Quoting patch for repoman

[Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>]

Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Monday 01 October 2007, Steve Long wrote:
>> A place to start might be a list of all known variables from say the
>> devmanual, along with whether they're allowed to be used as
>> multi-parameters in `for' or function/cmd calls. So it's legitimate to
>> see eg: for f in $A (even if it isn't space-proofed; that'd need an
>> array.)
> 
> i dont see how this is relevant, plus i dont really understand what you're
> trying to say.  this "multi-parameters" business just doesnt make sense.

Relevance is wrt automated checks for quoting, ie having a list of
variables[1] like WORKDIR and T to check for quoting issues.

Multi-parameter: according to devmanual, A is:
"All the source files for the package (excluding those which are not
available because of USE flags)."
So it's a (presumably whitespace-separated) list of values, not just a
singleton. Sorry if "multi-parameters" was a bad choice of word.

[1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html


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