RFC: merge std-operator.def and ada-operator.def?

Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
Mon Mar 19 15:34:00 GMT 2012


> (a) It would make some sense with GDB plugins but that plan was IIRC abandoned
>     in the favor of Python scripting.
> 
> (b) The Ada operators should be at least very each marked as Ada specific in
>     its definition comment.  Moreover I believe it would be worth really
>     renaming them all to OP_ADA_* instead.

I am OK with renaming them using OP_ADA_ as a prefix, but I would
go the other way.  Instead of having language-specific operators,
make them available to everyone with standard, well documented,
semantics. Many of them might be only used in Ada at the moment,
but I think that's OK and there is no reason that some operators
such as "UNOP_IN_RANGE" for instance might not be used by other
languages.

-- 
Joel



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