Re: [RFA] new set/show multiple-choice-auto-select commands (take 2)

Joel Brobecker
2008-01-23T15:33:10Z

> > I hope you don't object to the addition of this new set/show setting
> > whose purpose, I believe, is really orthogonal to the issue that
> > Markus is trying to address.
>
> Well, it institutionalizes the Ada behavior as different from the
> direction we've taken for C++. But it doesn't make things any worse,
> so I do not object.

After thinking about it some more, I thought that it didn't make sense
for the behavior to be language-dependent. Another argument in favor
of making it consistent is that, long term, I want the code to be
merged, and having consistent behavior will of course help. So we
will have Ada be consistent with C/C++, and use "all" as the default
value. This is a change of behavior for Ada users, but we all thought
that this is usually what the user wants, so it should be for the better.

This patch is withdrawn again, and a new one will be sent later.

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Joel