Actually, thinking back, the primary reason I did that was that bash can’t dereference a variable by its name stored in another variable without an eval, and ca

Actually, thinking back, the primary reason I did that was that bash can’t dereference a variable by its name stored in another variable without an eval, and calling eval on each access of the variable was slow. By eval-ing the whole method ahead of time, I could access all the object attributes at runtime without any further evals. It looks like cmake has a getter/setter function that takes a name, so that wouldn’t be a problem here.