On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:26 AM, David Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Michael... > > I'll give this another week or so here on the mailing list (and in the > bug tracker) to gather feedback. > > If I don't hear anything else, I'll consider changing some > documentation to clarify the existing situation, but I don't see a > reasonable way to accommodate this feature request *and* maintain > backwards compatibility with existing real world uses of macro and if > commands. >
I would like to see the documentation expanded to better explain the differences between a function and a macro. Before this discussion I have never used a function (did not understand what that gave me over a macro) however I have ran into this problem with using if statements in macros. John _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
