From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH:doc] GDB/MI attribute names
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r5tvtbii.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h9i8cl$i9e$1@ger.gmane.org>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-25 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-24 10:04 Nick Roberts
2009-09-25 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 10:55 ` Nick Roberts
2009-09-25 11:09 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-25 12:34 ` Nick Roberts
2009-09-25 12:53 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-25 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 13:35 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-25 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 14:15 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-25 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 22:32 ` Nick Roberts
2009-09-25 23:12 ` Nick Roberts
2009-09-28 16:25 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-26 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 13:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-09-25 13:40 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-25 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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