Re: [RFA] Python: PR/13327: expose laziness to Python

Paul Koning
2011-10-25T18:38:18Z

On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:38:20 -0400
>> Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
>>
>> The documentation briefly touches on how lazy fetching works in the discussion of the is_lazy attribute, but it doesn't more fully discuss it as a topic of its own. I could try to do so, in the introductory material for gdb.Value. Should I do that?
>
> No, I think what you wrote is good enough.
>
>> Ok to commit?
>
> A few comments to the documentation part:
>
>> +@defvar Value.is_lazy
>> +This read-only boolean attribute is true if the value has not yet
>
> "The attribute is true" sounds weird, doesn't it? How about
>
> The value of this read-only attribute is @code{True} if @code{Value}
> has not yet been fetched ...

What I wrote originally was copied from is_optimized_out. But I like your wording better. I made it "...if this @code{gdb.Value} has not yet..." which is the wording used in the other attributes directly above this one.

> ...
> Okay with these changes.

Thanks. Committed that way.

paul