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| author | Mathieu Duponchelle <mathieu@centricular.com> | 2019-05-26 15:13:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2019-05-28 20:26:54 +0300 |
| commit | 12a82e763d43f6280572b3f04357f77e50304855 (patch) | |
| tree | a11ae68d4bd92ca1b84fae7cbc04b0cc238c1bc8 /docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md | |
| parent | 20eb948b974a96b3933d42db524fd584cb60c8b7 (diff) | |
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interpreter: add fallback argument to subproject.get_variable()
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 9484c28..f59d627 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -2288,10 +2288,14 @@ opaque object representing it. - `found()` *(added 0.48.0)* which returns whether the subproject was successfully setup -- `get_variable(name)` fetches the specified variable from inside the +- `get_variable(name, fallback)` fetches the specified variable from inside the subproject. This is useful to, for instance, get a [declared dependency](#declare_dependency) from the [subproject](Subprojects.md). + If the variable does not exist, the variable `fallback` is returned. + If a fallback is not specified, then attempting to read a non-existing + variable will cause a fatal error. + ### `run result` object This object encapsulates the result of trying to compile and run a |