From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: pmuldoon@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch][doc] PR python/10781
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y6nbgonw.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8363afi3hf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:43:40 +0200")
Eli> Then how about "Cast an instance of @code{gdb.Value} ..."?
Maybe "this instance".
It is not any instance.
>> I think it is generally preferable to name parameters according to their
>> use.
Eli> No, they should be named according to their essence, i.e. what they
Eli> are.
It must be a type -- an instance of gdb.Type.
>> gdb.Type represents a type in the inferior.
Eli> Sorry, I still don't understand.
gdb.Type is a class. An instance of this class represents a type in the
user's program. It is a representation because it is not actually the
type, but a way of describing the type.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-16 18:49 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
2009-10-16 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-16 18:49 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
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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