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Subject: Re: GDB Focus Group at the 2008 GCC Summit
From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
To: tromey@redhat.com
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On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 09:15 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Our consensus was to use the function-like syntax (second example
> above) and to parse the arguments as expressions.  This does mean
> there is a namespace issue, but we reasoned that we could make all the
> standard functions have a "gdb_" prefix or something like that.

What about using a different symbol, such as '%' instead of the '$' used
for convenience variables?
-- 
[]'s
Thiago Jung Bauermann
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center