In article <dfanf0$14j$1@sea.gmane.org>,
Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> wrote:
>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.

I don't like it either. Maybe

.READONLY: CFLAGS.NetBSD CFLAGS.SunOS CFLAGS.IRIX

christos