[cmake-developers] [PATCH] remove "x" placeholder from STREQUAL operands

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Apr 23 12:53:54 EDT 2014


On 2014-04-18 09:07, Brad King wrote:
> On 04/18/2014 08:58 AM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
>> To forbid whitespace and control characters in variable names can IMHO only be good.
>
> Some people use arbitrary variable names as a way to do key/value tables.
> In such cases it is intentional to use arbitrary characters in variable
> names even though they are never written literally in the source.

Adding actual data types (a true list type would be an enormous 
improvement) could remove the need for such trickery...

-- 
Matthew




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