support more assignment operators

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the repository's Makefile assignment parsing and related tests, then compare their handling with the six operators listed in the issue. Done means GNU make, bmake, and POSIX make assignment syntax using these operators is recognized correctly.

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Description

enhancement Feature: Language Service

GNU make, bmake, and POSIX make recently adopted several assignment operators beyond the simple equals sign (=).

Newer assignment operators include:

  • :=
  • ::=
  • :::=
  • !=
  • ?=
  • +=
Dominant language
TypeScript
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