Warnings: Infrastructure for tracking and warning about variables

[subdirmk.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index b812f2782b06557d43101f1a642ebdf65570a018..e5e937fc7b1927561953a1992dd32d3285da87cc 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -246,24 +246,6 @@ So pathname syntax is a subset of:
 &#     delete everything to end of line
        (useful if the RHS contains unrecognised & constructions)
 
-&:changequote NEWQUOTE
-       changes the escape sequence from & to literally NEWQUOTE
-       NEWQUOTE may be any series of of non-whitespace characters,
-       and is terminated by EOL or lwsp.  The whole line is
-       discarded.
-
-       After this, write NEWQUOTE instead of &, everywhere.
-       The effect is unscoped and lasts until the next setting,
-       or until the end of the current directory's Suffix.sd.mk.
-       It takes effect on &:include'd files too, so maybe set
-       it back before using &:include.
-
-       Notably
-               NEWQUOTENEWQUOTE        => NEWQUOTENEWQUOTE
-               NEWQUOTE\NEWQUOTE       => NEWQUOTE
-               NEWQUOTE\$              => $
-               NEWQUOTE:changequote &  set escape back to &
-
 &TARGETS_things
        Handled specially.  If mentioned at the start of a line
        (possibly following whitespace), declares that this
@@ -287,6 +269,24 @@ So pathname syntax is a subset of:
        `all' is extra special: every directory has an `all'
        target, which corresponds to &TARGETS.
 
+&:changequote NEWQUOTE
+       changes the escape sequence from & to literally NEWQUOTE
+       NEWQUOTE may be any series of of non-whitespace characters,
+       and is terminated by EOL or lwsp.  The whole line is
+       discarded.
+
+       After this, write NEWQUOTE instead of &, everywhere.
+       The effect is unscoped and lasts until the next setting,
+       or until the end of the current directory's Suffix.sd.mk.
+       It takes effect on &:include'd files too, so maybe set
+       it back before using &:include.
+
+       Notably
+               NEWQUOTENEWQUOTE        => NEWQUOTENEWQUOTE
+               NEWQUOTE\NEWQUOTE       => NEWQUOTE
+               NEWQUOTE\$              => $
+               NEWQUOTE:changequote &  set escape back to &
+
 
 Dollar doubling and macro assistance
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