From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24056 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2011 18:38:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 24041 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Oct 2011 18:38:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from qmta12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (HELO qmta12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.59.227) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:37:59 +0000 Received: from omta22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.73]) by qmta12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id p6Mz1h0081ap0As5C6dzLf; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:37:59 +0000 Received: from [10.127.238.91] ([65.206.2.68]) by omta22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id p6dn1h00j1U2a2h3i6dpRH; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:37:57 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFA] Python: PR/13327: expose laziness to Python Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Paul Koning In-Reply-To: <83fwihc4xw.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:54:00 -0000 Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, tromey@redhat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <83fwihc4xw.fsf@gnu.org> To: Eli Zaretskii Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00674.txt.bz2 On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Paul Koning >> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:38:20 -0400 >> Cc: Tom Tromey >>=20 >> The documentation briefly touches on how lazy fetching works in the disc= ussion of the is_lazy attribute, but it doesn't more fully discuss it as a = topic of its own. I could try to do so, in the introductory material for g= db.Value. Should I do that? >=20 > No, I think what you wrote is good enough. >=20 >> Ok to commit? >=20 > A few comments to the documentation part: >=20 >> +@defvar Value.is_lazy >> +This read-only boolean attribute is true if the value has not yet >=20 > "The attribute is true" sounds weird, doesn't it? How about >=20 > The value of this read-only attribute is @code{True} if @code{Value} > has not yet been fetched ... What I wrote originally was copied from is_optimized_out. But I like your = wording better. I made it "...if this @code{gdb.Value} has not yet..." whi= ch is the wording used in the other attributes directly above this one. > ... > Okay with these changes. Thanks. Committed that way. paul