From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1882 invoked by alias); 3 Sep 2011 19:46:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 1874 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Sep 2011 19:46:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-yi0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-yi0-f41.google.com) (209.85.218.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:45:58 +0000 Received: by yib2 with SMTP id 2so2953039yib.0 for ; Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:45:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.145.10 with SMTP id o10mr11830356yhj.90.1315079158117; Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.61.34 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 12:45:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <837h5p2a6g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <09787EF419216C41A903FD14EE5506DD015343BFAE@AUSX7MCPC103.AMER.DELL.COM> <837h5p2a6g.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:53:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Doc: make python function/method descriptions look as in Python From: Matt Rice To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Paul_Koning@dell.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2011-09/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: >> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 15:52:59 -0500 >> >> I found the descriptions of the Python methods/functions hard to read be= cause they are not shown in Python syntax. > > I have no opinion on whether this is desirable or not; I will go with > whatever others think. =A0Python is a read-only language for me. I too find the existing method syntax awkward, and prefer it with all the parens/brackets