RE: Idea: GNU Make Standard Library

[Dill, John]

>Correct.
>
>I agree this kind of thing is a good idea; I've seen some truly nice
>examples of things that can be done with eval, etc. posted to the
>various make lists, and it would be great to capture those somewhere.
>
>However, I don't expect that these will become embedded into make as
>builtin functions, etc.

That's fine.  However, no one has yet been able to explain to me what guile is 
going to do for make.  Can someone give a simple example of what guile will be 
able to accomplish which is currently impossible or cumbersome to do in make 
currently?

John