[cmake-developers] Lua-style long brackets

[Nils Gladitz]

Does that mean Lua itself is just off the table for 3.0 or altogether?

Nils

On 11.10.2013 21:56, Brad King wrote:
> On 10/11/2013 03:34 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity: is the Lua integration affecting the set
>> of supported compilers?
> There is no integration of Lua's source code in my outline.  It is
> only a change to the CMake language lexer/parser to handle Lua-style
> long-bracket syntax.  For example:
>
> file(WRITE myfile.txt [====[
> This is the first line!
> Arbitrary content without:
>   - ${variable} evaluation
>   - \-escapes
>   - "-quoting
> ]====])
>
> instead of
>
> file(WRITE myfile.txt "This is the first line!
> Arbitrary content without:
>   - \${variable} evaluation
>   - \\-escapes
>   - \"-quoting
> ")
>
> It will also support long-bracket comments, e.g.
>
> #[========[
> This is a multi-line comment that can contain arbitrary text except
> for the close bracket of equal length.  It is great for long
> explanations, copyright notices, and commenting out large blocks
> of code.  The closing bracket does not need to start in #, but if
> it does then a one-character change to the opening bracket to be
> "##[========[" would enable the entire block and the ending line
> would be a normal one-line comment.
> #]========]
>
> -Brad
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