[CMake] lexical scoping

[Brandon Van Every]

On Nov 2, 2007 5:57 PM, KSpam <keesling_spam at cox.net> wrote:
>
>         variable_scope_begin(scratch_preamble got_match not_trail empty)
>         # [...]
>         # my actual code, blah blah blah
>         # [...]
>         variable_scope_end(scratch_preamble got_match not_trail empty)

That's better, but what happens when I change my variable names and
forget to update this stuff?

> Of course, if we could get braces into the mix, it would reduce to:
>
>         variable_scope(scratch_preamble got_match not_trail empty)
>         {
>                 # [...]
>                 # my actual code, blah blah blah
>                 # [...]
>         }

Why is this better than implementing functions?

> I will trade typing a few more characters for variable safety any day.

You can do that now with verbose variable prefixes.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every