From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch][doc] PR python/10781
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37huvjjqy.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838wfbixtf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:48:28 +0200")
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> +Cast the @code{gdb.Value} to the type represented by @var{type}, and
Eli> ^^^
Eli> Please remove this "the".
Removing the "the" makes this read strangely.
gdb.Value is a class, the "the" indicates that it is an instance which is
cast.
>> +return a new @code{gdb.Value}. @var{type} must be a @code{gdb.Type}
>> +object.
Eli> If TYPE is an object, then it probably isn't a good idea to call it
Eli> TYPE. Why not OBJECT?
I think it is generally preferable to name parameters according to their
use. "object" is not specific enough.
Eli> Anyway, what does it mean "the type represented by TYPE"? How can a
Eli> type be "represented"? Did you perhaps mean "the type of TYPE"?
gdb.Type represents a type in the inferior.
"the type of TYPE" would be incorrect.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-16 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-16 7:35 Phil Muldoon
2009-10-16 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-16 18:07 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2009-10-16 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-16 18:49 ` Tom Tromey
2009-10-16 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-19 17:50 ` Tom Tromey
2009-10-27 15:52 ` Phil Muldoon
2009-10-27 16:01 ` Phil Muldoon
2009-10-27 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-27 20:58 ` Phil Muldoon
2009-10-27 21:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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