Re: [2/2] RFA: implement 'set print symbol'

[Doug Evans <dje@google.com>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:52:26 +0200
>> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>>
>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:15:20 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > I'm confused.  What is the plan now?
>>
>> Everything the same, just by default it will be now "set print symbol on".
>> But one can manually "set print symbol off" to retain the GDB-7.4 behavior.
>
> Why do we need to retain the old behavior?  You yourself said that no
> one will find this option to use it.  My vote is to have the new
> behavior as the only one.  The mess with "set print" and p/a is
> already too much, even without an additional knob.
>
> But if we must have it, I would suggest to call it "set print
> no-symbol", and have it off by default.  (Yes, I know: double negation
> is not an ideal situation, but it is IMO better than the aggravation
> from the need to type more to disambiguate the command for
> completion.)

Hi.
Yeah, double-negation is, umm, nasty.
Let's pick something non-double-negative.  It can't be that hard.