[CMake] lexical scoping

[Bill Hoffman]

Brandon Van Every wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2007 3:44 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
>> I have an idea.  What if we created a variable_scope command?
> 
> Bad markerting idea.  Nobody programs in this idiom.  (Well, I don't
> know about Perl, as far as I'm concerned they're nobody.  ;-)  Lotsa
> people program with functions and would expect a scripting language to
> have functions.  Minimize the number of "CMake specific weird things"
> people have to learn, if you want more users.  SETLOCAL is not so
> objectionable, didn't some Unix shells have this historically?
> 
The problem is what does SETLOCAL mean?   There is no scope in cmake 
right now.  So, I guess you are saying add functions.  I am not even 
sure what those will be...  Many languages have the idea of scope. 
Braces in C++.   This would just be a way of creating scope.


-Bill