make keyword?

[djzort]

In this guide https://github.com/RexOps/rexify-website/blob/master/content/docs/rex_book/infrastructure/example_of_a_complete_rex_code_infrastructure.md

there is a keyword "make" that doesnt seem to appear anywhere else

could its function be clarified?

[krimdomu]

The make keyword was added because of a joke. A colleague of mine loved the make tool so he wrote everything in makefiles ;-)

It is just a replacement for sub. So it just returns the given anonymous function.

This is the code inside Rex::Commands:

sub make(&) {
  return $_[0];
}

[ferki]

Thanks for this question as well, @djzort! And for the insights about the origin story of make, @krimdomu! :)

[djzort]

It might be a good idea to remove it from the documentation.

[ferki]

It might be a good idea to remove it from the documentation.

The Rex documentation lives in the RexOps/Rex repo together with the code (and released to CPAN). In order to not break backwards compatibility, we can't remove make quickly from the API, but we could add some documentation for it there, and perhaps also add a deprecation notice later if we deem it should go away in a later major release.

As far as the guides and the "Rex book" on the website are concerned, it might help to think of those as more of "a collection of articles written by various people across years", instead of "documentation". Most of those authors don't maintain the content actively here anymore, so I considered moving them into an "archive" section to make that explicit, and also display the original author and last modification date of each page (see #155).