On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Michael Wild wrote: > Anyways, I didn't want to get into a language-war, but rather voiced my > dislike for such dubious flexibility. CMake is very domain-specific language > used to create build systems, not a general-purpose language.
My syntax might not have been the best. I was using "&" in the Perl sigil sense rather than the C address of sense. I'm also not really clear on the evaluation semantics of the CMake language from the reference manual. However, the way I see it, CMake seems to already have the basic functionality of interest. Defining a function "foo" creates a symbol "_foo" that references the previous value of "foo". The main limitation here is that the name "_foo" is automatically chosen. Perhaps "_foo" is already used and we don't want to overwrite it but rather want to use the symbol "__foo" or something else. _______________________________________________ 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
