Re: Usage of "eval" inside if

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 22:52 +0530, kalyan wrote:
> I expected the output on my console to be 0 but i got 1 ?
> Any hints on what might be going wrong here are appreciated.

There's nothing wrong :-).

Make evaluates left-to-right and completely expands each variable or
function it finds in the string before moving on to the next.

So, the first thing it needs to expand is $(eval $(change_value)) and
that sets VAR to 1.  Then it sees $(VAR) and expands that, which results
in "1".