Re: [PATCH:doc] GDB/MI attribute names

Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25T13:13:34Z

> From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:09:12 +0400
>
> > @var{variable} names should be specified as a sequence of alphabetic
> > characters and underscores.
>
> It seem to me to introduce too many indirection levels. We don't have something
> called 'variable' that also has name, that is also 'specified' by something
> separate.

What do you think about my suggestion?

> Why not:
>
> The @var{variable} nonterminal in the above grammar may contain only
> alphanumeric characters or the underscore character.

I'd prefer not to use ``nonterminal'', as it might not be known to a
reader who didn't study formal grammars and parsers. We don't use
this terminology anywhere else in the manual.