[CMake] Re: function and raise_scope commands (+ unset bug)
Pau Garcia i Quiles
pgquiles at elpauer.org
Sun Feb 17 06:01:15 EST 2008
Quoting Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com>:
> I have to admit, PARENT_SCOPE nomenclature bugs me. I don't know of
> any mainstream programming language that explicitly asks me to think
> about scope when setting a variable.
Ruby asks. But it does so in a so nicely and clear way that you
actually like it because code is more readable.
As a reminder, here comes the nomenclature in Ruby:
Scope Prefix Example
----- ------ -------
global variable $ $global
instance variable @ @instance
local variable lowercase or _ local
constant uppercase Constant
class variable @@ @@class_var
--
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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