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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2018-10-16 15:04:01 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2018-10-16 15:04:09 (GMT) |
| commit | e5e59a1bc68702395ff63e301cadaee266982fc7 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ff2089beb3991a63cb14fb227a94d1ba15c3a15 /Help/manual | |
| parent | 73d9d53ed0333f76e8ded6a91d34fbc43111ab27 (diff) | |
| parent | 82a48226107e2ee0d073eaf521750c8354b67e41 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'document-dollar-in-varnames'
82a4822610 CMP0053: document that `$` is a valid literal variable character
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !2479
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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst index 591f73d..71649ba 100644 --- a/Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst +++ b/Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst @@ -391,8 +391,9 @@ inside out, e.g. ``${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. |