[CMake] lexical scoping

[Brandon Van Every]

On Nov 2, 2007 4:13 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yep.

> 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.

Then add braces.  Not some begin_long_thing_word end_long_thing_word.
Nobody does that, nobody will like it.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every