On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 19:31:43 +0100, tors...@robitzki.de wrote:
> Currently, the Code that evaluates the ${}-Syntax only evaluates the key, if
> the key is not an empty string:
>
> const char* cmCommandArgumentParserHelper::ExpandSpecialVariable(
> const char* key, const char* var)
> {
> i
On 1/22/19 1:31 PM, tors...@robitzki.de wrote:
> Currently, the Code that evaluates the ${}-Syntax only evaluates the key
>
> const char* cmCommandArgumentParserHelper::ExpandSpecialVariable(
That's the pre-CMP0053 impl.
See cmMakefile::ExpandVariablesInStringNew for the modern impl.
Only with C
> Am 22.01.2019 um 17:03 schrieb Brad King :
>
> Yes, something more extensible would be fine. We need to be careful
> not to slow down the variable reference syntax parser though.
Currently, the Code that evaluates the ${}-Syntax only evaluates the key, if
the key is not an empty string:
co
On 1/22/19 10:55 AM, Marc CHEVRIER wrote:
> What about introducing a syntax similar to the version comparison:
>
> * LENGTH_EQUAL
> * LENGTH_GREATER
> * LENGTH_LOWER
> * etc…
>
> To use it:
> if (my_list LENGTH_EQUAL 1)
> # do my stuff
> endif()
That's where this thread started. Every
I like some syntax that looks like $LEN{}.
I would love to keep the $...{ syntax open for future exentsion such
as easy target property set/get ( $[prop_name]{target} ) . This seems
to be okay as $ENV, and $CACHE only work on variables, so therefore
adding $LEN that also only works on variables se
On 1/22/19 7:40 AM, Daniel Franke wrote:
> Whats about a Syntax like
>
> ${list::LENGTH}
That would require dispatch after matching `${VAR}` syntax, and
that lookup is one of the hottest paths according to profiling.
We already have $ENV{} and $CACHE{} syntax.
-Brad
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On 1/22/19 7:09 AM, tors...@robitzki.de wrote:
>> Am 22.01.2019 um 12:42 schrieb Brad King:
>> Rather than a special `if` syntax, perhaps we could introduce an
>> explicit `$LIST_LENGTH{mylist}` syntax. One would need to experiment
>> to see if modifying the variable expansion parser (under CMP005
