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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


  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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