Re: repo to work on python scripting support

Doug Evans
2008-03-26T17:29:19Z

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> I've been thinking... maybe we do want $(...) to allow things other
> than Python commands. Or, more precisely, maybe we want to let Python
> code register a function by name for use in $(...). The Python
> function would get the uninterpreted string argument for processing.

OOC, Would there be an intent to not disallow dynamically loaded C/C++
instead of Python for $(foo)? [Emphasis on OOC.]

> My reason is that after playing a bit, I'm not over-fond of the
> verboseness and extra quoting required by the Python bits. It is more
> gdb-ish, I think, not to do this.
>
> Any opinions?
>
> The canonical example is a function to match the calling function at a
> breakpoint. gdb-ish:
>
> break inner if $(caller-is outer)
>
> Pythonic:
>
> break inner if $(gdb.caller_is ('outer'))

Parsing two separate languages in one line is problematic too (I'm not
sure how far the Pythonic version was intended to be interpreted).