Re: quoting $$ (or something completely different?)

[Tom Bachmann]

> But there is one more thing: doing what you proposed would introduce a 
> completely new style of writing makefiles into my project, and I'd be 
> happy not to do this.
> I'd be very happy to defer the call to SET instead of doing the 
> assignment earlier. Do you have an idea how to do this?

ther is a more serious problem I did not see, yet: while the example 
makefile is obviously stupid, a real makefile includes another file 
between the two assignments, so a more complete definition of foo would be

define FOO
CFLAGS := foo bar baz foo2
include OTHERFILE
$(eval $(call SET,CFLAGS))
endef

now it begins to make sense (to me), as OTHERFILE can make assignments 
like CFLAGS += -DFOO etc. It would be very annoying to always have to 
write $(eval ...).
What still confuses me is the following: I can write the initial 
sequence and everything works fine, so how can I just transform it into 
a "funtion"?
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