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Re: Deprecating commands; Was: RFC: patch for ...


"J.T. Conklin" wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Fernando" == Fernando Nasser <fnasser@cygnus.com> writes:
> Fernando> Talking about "bad" commands, what can be worse that the
> Fernando> "set" overloading?  It should only work for gdb control
> Fernando> switches.  The "set var" should be name "assign".  But who
> Fernando> dares to change this after 15+ years...
> 
> If we were to have a different command for setting variables, I'd pick
> "write" over "assign".  However I see this in much the same way as the
> BASIC "LET" keyword --- a useless bit of syntactic sugar.  I'd prefer
> being able to set program variables directly:
> 
>         (gdb) print x
>         $1 = 3
>         (gdb) x = 4

An asside, you know about things like:

	(gdb) print x = 4

last time I counted I found something like 5 different set commands and
none that could be reliably used by a GUI :-).

	Andrew

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