On 10/05/2012 02:53 PM, Nils Gladitz wrote: > My initial thought was that "NOTFOUND" would be a good idea since it > evaluates to false and the get_*_property commands also seem to use it.
I wrote the more general "get_property" command to replace those and the newer command uses empty string rather than NOTFOUND. It is more useful when computing pieces of a string to put together, perhaps when appending to a property value. > Looking at the documentation for "if()" again only "-NOTFOUND" as a > suffix should evaluate to false though (I assume the documentation is > incomplete here?). Yes, thanks for pointing it out. Fixed: http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=f63304d9 > On second though relying on timestamps to evaluate to false on failure > is probably a bad idea since I could have a format string of e.g. "%w" > (day of the week) which might produce a valid timestamp "0" which would > also evaluate to false. Yes, so a comparison against "" would be more reliable. Thanks, -Brad -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
