– how can I make a pattern goal for that? I invariably end up with some redundancy, where e.g. only the "V" in the example above turns into my % (and $ * ), e.g.
Fortunately I haven't yet had to do this for anything too large to just copy-paste stuff, but it feels like something someone would have solved at some point, I've just never seen examples like that in any of the make-alternatives I've looked at.
You can't have more than 1 pattern variable but if they are all of the same form you can generate all these rules via $(eval); first define a function that generates one rule, then invoke it for all combinations.
Unfortunately this sort of thing is not very readable because make function parameters are numbered, not named.
