From b6dbb4ecc6eae8b177df2f3a78fc754002b22493 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Hutt Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 14:21:27 +0100 Subject: Improve user-defined function wording & link to FAQ --- docs/markdown/Syntax.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/markdown/Syntax.md b/docs/markdown/Syntax.md index 1000766..09369e6 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Syntax.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Syntax.md @@ -321,4 +321,4 @@ subdir('tests') User-defined functions and methods -- -Meson does not currently support user-defined functions or methods. The addition of user-defined functions would make Meson Turing-complete. Avoiding this greatly simplifies the implementation. If because of this limitation you find yourself copying and pasting code a lot you may be able to use a [`foreach` loop instead](#foreach-statements). +Meson does not currently support user-defined functions or methods. The addition of user-defined functions would make Meson Turing-complete which would make it harder to reason about and more difficult to integrate with tools like IDEs. More details about this are [in the FAQ](FAQ.md#why-is-meson-not-just-a-python-module-so-i-could-code-my-build-setup-in-python). If because of this limitation you find yourself copying and pasting code a lot you may be able to use a [`foreach` loop instead](#foreach-statements). -- cgit v1.1