On Monday 17 December 2007, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> I propose the addition of a BOOL type to the CMake language.
>
> bool(variable [value])
>
> would declare a variable of type BOOL, with an optional value
> supplied. Any SET commands performed on the variable in its scope
> would be subject to boolean type constraint. A BOOL can take on the
> following values. Any other assignment is an error.
>
> "TRUE" class - TRUE, 1, Y, Yes, YES, y, yes, ON
> "FALSE" class - FALSE, 0, N, n, No, NO, OFF, <empty>
Attached is a patch which removes "Y" and "N" from the recognized values for
true/false.
This patch may break stuff. I don't know if there are many people who rely
on "N" and "Y".
Alex
Index: cmSystemTools.cxx
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RCS file: /cvsroot/CMake/CMake/Source/cmSystemTools.cxx,v
retrieving revision 1.356
diff -b -u -p -r1.356 cmSystemTools.cxx
--- cmSystemTools.cxx 13 Dec 2007 22:56:49 -0000 1.356
+++ cmSystemTools.cxx 17 Dec 2007 20:19:46 -0000
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ bool cmSystemTools::IsOn(const char* val
{
*c = toupper(*c);
}
- return (v == "ON" || v == "1" || v == "YES" || v == "TRUE" || v == "Y");
+ return (v == "ON" || v == "1" || v == "YES" || v == "TRUE");
}
bool cmSystemTools::IsNOTFOUND(const char* val)
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ bool cmSystemTools::IsOff(const char* va
*c = toupper(*c);
}
return (v == "OFF" || v == "0" || v == "NO" || v == "FALSE" ||
- v == "N" || cmSystemTools::IsNOTFOUND(v.c_str()) || v == "IGNORE");
+ cmSystemTools::IsNOTFOUND(v.c_str()) || v == "IGNORE");
}
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