Re: [RFA] More linespec quoting "fixes"

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com> writes:

Keith> Daniel recently committed a patch which fixed a couple of
Keith> linespec inconsistencies (allow "file:'function'" and
Keith> "'file:function'").

Keith> I wonder why not also allow "'file':function" and
Keith> "'file':'function'"?

Keith> I couldn't find a good answer as to why these two forms would be
Keith> disallowed, so I'm submitting the attached patch to enable these
Keith> formats.

The patch seems reasonable enough to me.  But, I don't claim to
understand linespec.c, so I'd appreciate it if someone else would take a
look.

My real question is whether we want to do this.  We've talked a little
bit about rewriting linespec to be less horrible... will supporting more
syntax make this too hard?  I'm open to breaking compatibility a bit --
but I think there is a limit to what we can do there, based on what is
documented.

Tom