[PATCH] Remove some variables in favor of using gdb::optional
Pedro Alves
palves@redhat.com
Fri Aug 23 19:47:00 GMT 2019
On 8/23/19 8:33 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2019-08-23 11:35 a.m., Pedro Alves wrote:
>> Would you like to run with this?
>
> So I wasn't sure about what the third state should be. I think it depends on
> the particular context. In different contexts, it could mean "unknown", "unspecified",
> "auto", "don't care", etc. There's no one-size word that fits all case, so I don't really
> like the idea of having just one word and have it represent poorly what we actually mean.
>
> That lead me to think, if we want to represent three states and if the states are
> specific to each use case, why not just define an enum and be explicit about it?
That's a very good point actually. I agree and I'm convinced.
Let's shelve the tribool idea until/if we find a better use for it.
>
> A bit like why I prefer defining an explicit type with two fields rather than using
> std::pair: the "first" and "second" members are not very descriptive.
Right, agreed, the fact that std::map/std::unordered_map searching returns pairs
is one of those things I hate the most about C++.
> Here's a patch that does that. What do you think?
I think I like it!
Thanks,
Pedro Alves
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