[cmake-developers] New EVIS parser moving forward (3.1)

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2014-02-21 14:51, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> If I made a branch which warned when implicit expansion was done, would
> folks be willing to run it over various codebases to see how annoying it
> would be to just remove it altogether?

To be clear, are we talking about in the case of e.g. STREQUAL, or 
*ever*? Because I'm sure breaking 'if(Pkg_FOUND)' would be very, very 
bad :-).

I'd be a little suspicious of even the former; I know at least in my 
case, greater understanding of implicit expansion leads to greater 
*reliance* on it as a guard against unintended expansion (i.e. 'if (FOO 
STREQUAL "...")' instead of 'if ("${FOO}" STREQUAL "...")').

(Loosely related: if variable names were sane, it would at least be safe 
to write e.g. 'if ("#${FOO}" STREQUAL "#...")'. But alas, '#${FOO}' 
might still be the name of a variable.)

-- 
Matthew