On 1/22/19 10:28 AM, tors...@robitzki.de wrote:
> With `$CACHE{VAR}` and `$ENV{VAR}` we already have the syntax for calling a
> „function“.
No, there is no obvious way to pass arguments, handle nested quoting, etc.
The language was not designed for that. That is a big can of worms I'd rather
not open just to solve the list length problem which is already only 2 lines.
> Once we have this, it would be possible to define $LIST_LENGTH in the CMake
> language
Not as efficiently as a dedicated syntax for the only language construct
we have that resembles a data structure.
-Brad
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