From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH:doc] GDB/MI attribute names
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h9ij8r$mvf$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ljk3t9e2.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
>> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:34:28 +0400
>>
>> 'variable' *is* a sequence.
>
> Let's not start an argument about the differences between a thing, its
> name, and a specification of the name ;-)
>
> Can you suggest an alternative that doesn't use terminology which
> could be unknown to the reader?
I have already suggested:
string ==>
""" ( letter | digit | "_" ) * """
This at least uses a terminology that is already used in the
manual.
- Volodya
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-25 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-24 10:04 Nick Roberts
2009-09-25 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 10:55 ` Nick Roberts
2009-09-25 11:09 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-25 12:34 ` Nick Roberts
2009-09-25 12:53 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-25 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 13:35 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-25 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 14:15 ` Vladimir Prus [this message]
2009-09-25 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 22:32 ` Nick Roberts
2009-09-25 23:12 ` Nick Roberts
2009-09-28 16:25 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-26 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 13:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 13:40 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-25 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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