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Re: [PATCH:doc] GDB/MI attribute names


Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From:  Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
>> Date:  Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:09:12 +0400
>> 
>> >    @var{variable} names should be specified as a sequence of alphabetic
>> >    characters and underscores.
>> 
>> It seem to me to introduce too many indirection levels. We don't have something
>> called 'variable' that also has name, that is also 'specified' by something
>> separate.
> 
> What do you think about my suggestion?

It still has the same problem -- it separates 'variable'  and 'specification' thereof, 
while those are one and the same thing. I think that my last suggestion of modifying the grammar is
the best
approach.

- Volodya



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