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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:46:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] Rename "gsmob" in Guile interface to "gdb object"
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> From: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:39:47 +0200
> 
> >> +The values exposed by @value{GDBN} to Guile are known as
> >> +@dfn{@value{GDBN} objects}.  There are several kinds of @value{GDBN}
> >> +object, and each is disjoint from all other types known to Guile.
> >
> > objects
> 
> You sure?

I think Doug is right, although what you wrote is not entirely wrong,
either.

> "There are several kinds of GDB object, and..." sounds better
> to me than "There are several kinds of GDB objects, and...".  Maybe it
> would be better to restructure the sentence; I tried a few other
> formulations and all sounded worse.

How about this:

  @value{GDBN} objects can be of several distinct types; each type is
  different from any other type known to Guile.