From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26811 invoked by alias); 9 Apr 2008 00:44:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 26803 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Apr 2008 00:44:26 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from bluesmobile.specifix.com (HELO bluesmobile.specifix.com) (216.129.118.140) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:43:58 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (bluesmobile.specifix.com [216.129.118.140]) by bluesmobile.specifix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2481E3BC9B; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 17:43:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Strangeness in set command From: Michael Snyder To: tromey@redhat.com Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Eli Zaretskii , Andreas Schwab , gdb@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: References: <20080405185423.GB13805@caradoc.them.org> <1207595159.31772.330.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:36:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1207701836.31772.401.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-7.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-04/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 18:34 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Snyder writes: > > Michael> The shortcut is probably one of those "seemed like a > Michael> good idea at the time" things, but now it's established > Michael> and we're stuck with it. > > It seems to me that changing "set x = expr" from valid to invalid > would be painful -- but it would be a one-time pain, and it would not > cause surprises. We could always try it and see if anybody screams... ;-)