ENH: clean up some help text

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmIfCommand.h b/Source/cmIfCommand.h
index a55c9824a6..243e4fca73 100644
--- a/Source/cmIfCommand.h
+++ b/Source/cmIfCommand.h
@@ -194,15 +194,15 @@ public:
       "\n"
 
       "The if statement was written fairly early in CMake's history "
-      "and it has some convenience features that may be confusing for "
-      "new users. The if statement reduces operations until there is "
+      "and it has some convenience features that are worth covering. "
+      "The if statement reduces operations until there is "
       "a single remaining value, at that point if the case "
       "insensitive value is: ON, 1, YES, TRUE, Y it returns true, if "
       "it is OFF, 0, NO, FALSE, N, NOTFOUND, *-NOTFOUND, IGNORE it "
       "will return false. \n"
 
-      "This is fairly reasonable. The convenience feature that makes "
-      "it more confusing is how CMake handles values that do not "
+      "This is fairly reasonable. The convenience feature that sometimes "
+      "throws new authors is how CMake handles values that do not "
       "match the true or false list. Those values are treated as "
       "variables and are dereferenced even though they do not have "
       "the required ${} syntax. This means that if you write\n"