Re: associated lists

[Ken Smith]

You could use pairmap from the GNU Make Standard Library.  It uses
lisp-like recursion instead of foreach to call a function for each pair
of variables.

http://gmsl.sourceforge.net/

  Ken

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:06:52PM -0400, Levent Yilmaz wrote:
> I have a set of associated pairs. And want to execute some command on 
> each pair. Say for example,
> 
> # define present-past tense pairs as follows
> present_tense = go   do  sit call
> past_tense    = went did sat called
> 
> # somehow generate this phony command for each pair
> # using eval (or by other(?) means)
> @echo $(present) today. $(past) yesterday.
> 
> 
> What I want to accomplish in effect is simply using $(foreach ...) but 
> iterate simultaneously through more than one list...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> thank you
> - L.
> 
> 
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