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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2018-10-16 15:03:08 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2018-10-16 15:03:08 (GMT) |
| commit | ab0edaabccc16bb568974051ee1e50b10993874a (patch) | |
| tree | 03ab2cd390dc4c338db04878314337a77a6d6b96 /Help/manual | |
| parent | eca87ee811a86a54a3e0bc27a29ea07ff9276ab7 (diff) | |
| parent | 82a48226107e2ee0d073eaf521750c8354b67e41 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'document-dollar-in-varnames' into release-3.13
Merge-request: !2479
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diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst index 591f73d..71649ba 100644 --- a/Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst +++ b/Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst @@ -391,8 +391,9 @@ inside out, e.g. ``${outer_${inner_variable}_variable}``. Literal variable references may consist of alphanumeric characters, the characters ``/_.+-``, and `Escape Sequences`_. Nested references -may be used to evaluate variables of any name. (See also policy -:policy:`CMP0053` documentation for historical considerations.) +may be used to evaluate variables of any name. See also policy +:policy:`CMP0053` documentation for historical considerations and reasons why +the ``$`` is also technically permitted but is discouraged. The `Variables`_ section documents the scope of variable names and how their values are set. |