Re: [PATCH 5/9] Rename "gsmob" in Guile interface to "gdb object"

[Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>]

On Sat 12 Apr 2014 20:46, Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com> writes:

> Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> writes:
>
>> diff --git a/gdb/doc/guile.texi b/gdb/doc/guile.texi
>> index 3f6580e..f7204e9 100644
>> --- a/gdb/doc/guile.texi
>> +++ b/gdb/doc/guile.texi
>> @@ -331,46 +331,45 @@ This is the string passed to @code{--target} when @value{GDBN} was configured.
>>  
>>  @node GDB Scheme Data Types
>>  @subsubsection GDB Scheme Data Types
>> -@cindex gdb smobs
>> +@cindex gdb objects
>>  
>> -@value{GDBN} uses Guile's @dfn{smob} (small object)
>> -data type for all @value{GDBN} objects
>> -(@pxref{Defining New Types (Smobs),,, guile, GNU Guile Reference Manual}).
>> -The smobs that @value{GDBN} provides are called @dfn{gsmobs}.
>> +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?  "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.

Andy