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Fix #13 and drop mention of line comment breaking function calls, they seem to work correctly

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Henry Schreiner 2019-07-19 11:37:18 -04:00
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@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ project(MyProject VERSION 1.0
LANGUAGES CXX)
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Now we see even more syntax. Strings are quoted, white space doesn't matter [^3], and the name of the project is the first argument (positional). All the keyword arguments here are optional. The version sets a bunch of variables, like `MyProject_VERSION` and `PROJECT_VERSION`. The languages are C, CXX, Fortran, and CUDA (CMake 3.7+). `C CXX` is the default. In CMake 3.9, `DESCRIPTION` was added to set a project description, as well. The documentation for «command:`project`» may be helpful.
Now we see even more syntax. Strings are quoted, whitespace doesn't matter, and the name of the project is the first argument (positional). All the keyword arguments here are optional. The version sets a bunch of variables, like `MyProject_VERSION` and `PROJECT_VERSION`. The languages are C, CXX, Fortran, and CUDA (CMake 3.7+). `C CXX` is the default. In CMake 3.9, `DESCRIPTION` was added to set a project description, as well. The documentation for «command:`project`» may be helpful.
{% hint style='danger' %}
CMake doesn't care about white space, and you can add comments with the `#` character, but never put a comment inside the function call parenthesis.
{% hint style='info' %}
You can add [comments](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-language.7.html#comments) with the `#` character. CMake does have an inline syntax for comments too, but it is rarely needed, as whitespace doesn't matter.
{% endhint %}
There's really nothing special about the project name. No targets are added at this point.