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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
Cc: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>,
	       "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] script language API for GDB
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sitnij45.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fvq6yndt.fsf@sspiff.org> (Doug Evans's message of "Fri, 06 Dec	2013 08:06:54 -0800")

>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com> writes:

Doug> One thought I have for this is "info guile pretty-printer", etc.
Doug> That simplifies a lot of things.  From a u/i perspective it has
Doug> both plusses and minuses, but I like it overall.

The problem with this approach is that it assumes that the user both
knows and cares in which extension language a given feature is
implemented.  However, I don't believe either of those is true in the
most common situations.  My experience with the libstdc++ printers is
that most people want them to "just work" and that any amount of
required under-the-hood knowledge is too much of a burden.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-20 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-05 17:06 Doug Evans
2013-12-06  5:51 ` Doug Evans
2013-12-06 12:57   ` Phil Muldoon
2013-12-06 16:07     ` Doug Evans
2013-12-20 16:26       ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2013-12-23 17:40         ` Doug Evans
2013-12-23 21:54           ` Tom Tromey
2013-12-23 21:58             ` Doug Evans

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