[CMake] lexical scoping
Brandon Van Every
bvanevery at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 11:31:41 EDT 2007
On Nov 3, 2007 10:42 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> After all the discussion / suggestions that have been part of this thread, I
> like the following best:
>
> local(scope_name)
> set(var1 "value1")
> set(var2 "value2")
> endlocal(scope_name)
> - any SET within the local scope would made only in the local scope unless
> the "CACHE" arg is used
It does have the advantage that I won't be forgetting to put variable
names in a list.
I'm a little puzzled about CACHE. The conversion scripts I'm writing
don't even have a cache, they're executed with cmake -P.
> - perhaps a "PARENT_SCOPE" keyword could be used with SET to set something
> back out in the containing scope
Somehow I really hate this nomenclature. Feels tedious.
> - function would be identical to macro except it would have an implied
> "local"/"endlocal" with the scope_name the same as the function name
Except of course we need to be able to SET the arguments.
Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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