In gmane.os.netbsd.devel.userlevel Roland Illig <rillig@netbsd.org> wrote:

> intended usage is:
> 
> .BEGIN_READONLY:
> CFLAGS.NetBSD=   -Wall
> CFLAGS.SunOS=    -O
> CFLAGS.IRIX=     -v
> .END_READONLY:

FWIW, this feels very, very icky...  Mixing targets and assignments
this way is just chemically pure semantic evil.

Your effort is appreciated, but this is a bad syntax to introduce.

SY, Uwe
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