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diff --git a/unit-tests/var-class-local.mk b/unit-tests/var-class-local.mk
index e75f08ba75a3..68696ea854af 100644
--- a/unit-tests/var-class-local.mk
+++ b/unit-tests/var-class-local.mk
@@ -1,8 +1,31 @@
-# $NetBSD: var-class-local.mk,v 1.2 2020/08/16 14:25:16 rillig Exp $
+# $NetBSD: var-class-local.mk,v 1.4 2020/10/25 09:46:25 rillig Exp $
#
# Tests for target-local variables, such as ${.TARGET} or $@.
# TODO: Implementation
+# Ensure that the name of the variable is exactly the given one.
+# The variable "@" is an alias for ".TARGET", so the implementation might
+# canonicalize these aliases at some point, and that might be surprising.
+# This aliasing happens for single-character variable names like $@ or $<
+# (see VarFind, CanonicalVarname), but not for braced or parenthesized
+# expressions like ${@}, ${.TARGET} ${VAR:Mpattern} (see Var_Parse,
+# ParseVarname).
+.if ${@:L} != "@"
+. error
+.endif
+.if ${.TARGET:L} != ".TARGET"
+. error
+.endif
+.if ${@F:L} != "@F"
+. error
+.endif
+.if ${@D:L} != "@D"
+. error
+.endif
+
all:
- @:;
+ # The ::= modifier overwrites the .TARGET variable in the node
+ # 'all', not in the global scope. This can be seen with the -dv
+ # option, looking for "all:@ = overwritten".
+ : ${.TARGET} ${.TARGET::=overwritten}${.TARGET}