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I get the syntax now. This is a single condition, but it has to be repeated three times. Odd syntax.

• pilif 11y ago
  It's very unusual, but at least it tells a reader what it's an else of. In code-reviews I still occasionally have to complain about the if (condition){ // 100 lines of code }else{ // 20 lines of code } pattern. As we're dealing with a language that has a proper subroutines and a return statement, this can just be refactored away. But CMake might not have either of those (I don't know - I have only ever written a single trivial CMakeLists.txt), so it might just force this pattern and then it's helpful to also enforce the else to restate the condition.
  • cm3 11y ago
    That makes sense, though the way this seems to be required to write in CMakeLists isn't maintainable. I can only guess they have diagnostics that would warn if you typo'd that easy to mistype string.