[CMake] elseif request

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-09-18 15:33-0700 David C Thompson wrote:

> What if you named the construct something other than ELSEIF? For
> instance:
>
>  ONEOF( LABEL )
>    CONDITION( cond_1 )
>      statements here if cond_1 is true
>    OR_CONDITION( cond_2 )
>      statements here if cond_1 is false and cond_2 is true
>    ... (more OR_CONDITION statements possible) ...
>    OTHERWISE()
>      statements here if cond_1 and cond_2 are false
>  ENDONEOF( LABEL )
[...]

The problem is this new suggestion uses an entirely different syntax rather
than a simple elseif extension of if()... else ... endif.  I prefer the
elseif extension since most programmers will recognize the syntax at a
glance since similar elseif syntax appears in their language of choice (at
least for C, fortran, python, java, bash, tcl, etc.).

Alan
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