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[97.122.120.205]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e9e14a558f8ab-4334f4d61eesm560565ab.24.2025.11.05.11.05.14 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:05:15 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Tromey To: Paul Koning Cc: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor doc fix for Python Type.fields In-Reply-To: <7B3296F3-200D-42C9-83E9-FFF258812844@comcast.net> (Paul Koning's message of "Wed, 5 Nov 2025 13:29:56 -0500") References: <20251105181059.3444537-1-tromey@adacore.com> <7B3296F3-200D-42C9-83E9-FFF258812844@comcast.net> X-Attribution: Tom Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:05:14 -0700 Message-ID: <87bjlg9u6t.fsf@tromey.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: gdb-patches@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 Precedence: list List-Id: Gdb-patches mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: gdb-patches-bounces~public-inbox=simark.ca@sourceware.org >> * Documents that a new sequence is always returned I've intentionally >> not mentioned that it is currently a list, in case we want to change >> to a tuple someday. Paul> Why is it important to say that a new sequence is returned? It Paul> seems to me that someday we may want to return the same sequence Paul> if thisis called multiple times. Yeah, I guess it isn't needed always. Like if gdb ever returned a tuple, it could be memoized. I wonder if Python has some idiomatic way to say "this is guaranteed to either return a tuple or a new list" Or if we should just write 'new list' and commit gdb to not memoizing. Tom