Re: (b)make: selecting every other element from a list

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> Is there a sane way of, in a Makefile, selecting every other (i.e.
> either even or odd, I don't care) member from a list?  I'm aware of
> bmake's nice feature of iterating on tuples, but I need to select a
> unique subset of those list members.

Is there some reason for not doing that using iteration?

flip := on
newl :=
.for x in $l
.if "$flip" = "on"
newl := $(newl) $x
flip := off
.else
flip := on
.endif
.endfor

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