>On second thoughts, I agree with Greg. > make -V '${FUBAR}' >seems to be much more obvious than > make -V '$FUBAR' >or > make -V ':FUBAR' >The implementation should be quite easy: >if (arg begins with '$') then use Var_Subst; else use Var_Value. Hmmm, true. I was thinking of Var_Parse, but that's probably not necessary. --sjg