Re: [PATCH v2] gdb: add tutorial command

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:14:20 -0300
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
> 
> > Isn't it strange to teach newbies that to assign a value to a
> > variable, one must use the 'print' command?  Why not "set variable"?
> 
> It is a bit strange, I suppose, but "set" (like "call") are not things I use personally, when print can do the same
> and is one fewer command to remember
> 
> And this doubles as a warning that if the user calls a function that has side-effects, those will also happen,
> and they aren't necessarily always desired by the user...
> 
> I can change it if you feel strongly that we should use "set" instead, but I find the side-effect explanation to
> be worth the unintuitiveness

I think the tutorial should teach the commands intended for their
purposes.  Some commands have side effects, but that's not newbie
stuff, IMO.

What do others think about this?