Re: [RFC][patch 2/9] export values mechanism to Python

Thiago Jung Bauermann
2008-07-30T14:26:37Z

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 21:00 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
>
> Daniel> Oh, I think it does - I'm just not sure how many of them will make
> Daniel> sense as instance methods rather than less object-oriented functions.
>
> I think we don't know what we might want to do in the future, since we
> have not finished attaching Python to gdb. It is easy to add
> "invisible"-style treatment of inferior field names later -- but it
> would be much harder to remove them.
>
> So, currently I lean toward conservatism on this issue.

Makes sense to me. We can decide after we have some of the Python
functionality committed (including this values patch), and hopefuly with
some people already using it to give some feedback of what they
want/expect.
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center