On 02/23/2012 04:08 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote: > I really physically suffer using case-insensitive languages,
Seriously? You must be an annoyingly happy person if that's your biggest problem in life! ;-) > but is > there any convention to decide > at least when to use upper and when to use a lower case? Variables *are* case-sensitive. Only commands, macros and functions are case-insensitive. > > For example user defined variables should be upper or lower case? If the variables is cached, the convention is to use all-caps. A lot of people use all-caps for all other variables too. I tend to mix them, e.g. loop variables are quite often 1-3 lower-case letters because they are used only very locally and their meaning is pretty clear. Anything that is not used in a very local context is all-caps in my code. But all of this is pure convention and personal preference... > > Or what happens if I hide by mistake a CMake-defined variable? (are they > all upper case?) The only occasion where you can hide a CMake-defined variable is inside a function(). Otherwise you *overwrite* it's value. And you often want to actually do that (e.g. to set the output directories for executables, libraries, archives etc.). HTH Michael -- 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
