Re: Is there any value in a lisp-like $(cond ...) function?

[J.T. Conklin]

Sam Ravnborg <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:47:14PM -0800, J.T. Conklin wrote:
>> PS: And if I've totally missed a better idiom for this task, please
>> let me know.
>
> I have used the following method in several cases:
>
> do-foo := ${RESULTS1}
> do-bar := ${RESULTS2}
> do-baz := ${RESULTS3}
>
> t:
>       $(do-$(FOO))
>
> With a little exta effort you have your else part covered too.

Thanks Sam.  

I didn't mention this, but I do use and prefer this for simple cases.
My actual use case has nested case statements, with many cases being
patterns/globs.  I attempted breaking it down, but it started looking
like overly abstracted object oriented code (where each class/method
does just one thing and you can't see the big picture).

    --jtc

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J.T. Conklin