From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27045 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2009 11:09:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 27034 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Sep 2009 11:09:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:09:36 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mr8g7-0001wu-0F for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:09:31 +0200 Received: from h86-62-88-129.ln.rinet.ru ([86.62.88.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:09:30 +0200 Received: from vladimir by h86-62-88-129.ln.rinet.ru with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:09:30 +0200 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com From: Vladimir Prus Subject: Re: [PATCH:doc] GDB/MI attribute names Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:09:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <19131.17428.428101.481874@totara.tehura.co.nz> <19132.41367.233102.480938@totara.tehura.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 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: 2009-09/txt/msg00787.txt.bz2 Nick Roberts wrote: > > Does that reflect correctly what you wanted to say? > > I'm not sure. To me, thay're not really variables but a field names (or > attribute names in HTML/XML parlance). It might mean the value rather than > the name. > > How about: > > @var{variable} names should be specified as a sequence of alphabetic > characters and underscores. It seem to me to introduce too many indirection levels. We don't have something called 'variable' that also has name, that is also 'specified' by something separate. Why not: The @var{variable} nonterminal in the above grammar may contain only alphanumeric characters or the underscore character. ? This is probably not 100% accurate either, since nonterminals do not contain characters but have terminal strings derived from them, which strings consist of characters, but I presume we're not writing a PhD here ;-) - Volodya