[CMake] elseif request

[Filipe Sousa]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 
> You can make a feature request with http://www.cmake.org/Bug/
> 
> 
> The bug tracker, which contains the feature requests, is also searchable.
> 
> I do not agree that it's an obvious extension to the CMake language.  If 
> elseif is introduced as you describe above, then conditions 2..n have no 
> matching condition.  It is the CMake language style to force the user to 
> bracket their conditional with matching conditions.  Personally I think 

Not anymore. You can do
SET(CMAKE_ALLOW_LOOSE_LOOP_CONSTRUCTS 1)
IF(cond1)
ELSE()
ENDIF()

> this is a good design choice, especially as conditionals are nested 
> deeper and deeper, as it does prevent some user errors.

-- 
Filipe Sousa

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