[cmake-developers] Preferred case for macro names?

[Ben Boeckel]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 06:11:26 -0500, David Cole via cmake-developers wrote:
> I would just like to point out that some modules (ExternalData,
> ExternalProject, to name two specific examples) adopted the convention
> to prefix all their provided function names with the module name and
> an underscore: for example, ExternalProject_Add and
> ExternalData_Expand_Arguments.
> 
> These functions adopt a mixed-case function naming convention, since
> the module name is mixed case, and since module names are file names,
> and some file systems have case sensitive file names ...... they
> should stay that way regardless of any convention you may like to try
> to adopt elsewhere.

Agreed. I use lower case everywhere I can, but externalproject_add just
looks worse than ExternalProject_add (though I'd really prefer
external_project_add, that ship sailed long ago).

--Ben