Re: macro with args question

[James Olin Oden <joden lee k12 nc us>]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:32:01AM -0400, James Olin Oden wrote:
> > 
> > This works.  But then say I want to do:
> > 
> > 	%{revert_script -n %{name}-y}
> > 
> 
> Try
> 	%{expand: %%{revert_script -n %{name}-y}
> kinda like eval in shell scripts.
>
Thanks, I'll try that in the morning.  It looks like from the 
output I was getting that the args of a macro are not recursively
evaluated.  I might be missing something though.
 
> > 
> > How might I get this to work?  Also, am I perhaps tripping over a bug?
> > Or are my expectations/thinking buggy (-;?
> > 
> 
> Not a bug, rather an extension, I suspect.
>
When I get the time, for a perhaps quick fix, would evaluating args
be a good thing, or might I cause some severe breakage?

Cheers...james
 
> 73 de Jeff
> 
>