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authorDaniele E. Domenichelli <daniele.domenichelli@iit.it>2013-11-18 13:30:52 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2013-11-19 14:01:54 (GMT)
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Help: Document macro argument caveats in more detail
Add notes about macro arguments in the foreach, if, and list commands. Add a section to the macro command documentation explaining in detail how macro arguments are not variables.
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NOTES: A list in cmake is a ; separated group of strings. To create a
list the set command can be used. For example, set(var a b c d e)
creates a list with a;b;c;d;e, and set(var "a b c d e") creates a
-string or a list with one item in it.
+string or a list with one item in it. (Note macro arguments are not
+variables, and therefore cannot be used in LIST commands.)
When specifying index values, if <element index> is 0 or greater, it
is indexed from the beginning of the list, with 0 representing the