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

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Fri Feb 21 17:11:27 EST 2014


On 02/21/2014 05:05 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 16:37:51 -0500, Brad King wrote:
>> IMO we should not be considering any change to implicit dereference
>> in unquoted arguments.  At most we should make if("FOO") not do it.
> 
> Any reason why?

By limiting the change to quoted and bracket arguments we preserve
existing behavior in common existing code but allow authors to protect
themselves by quoting.

-Brad




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