From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13280 invoked by alias); 18 Dec 2014 08:13:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 13245 invoked by uid 89); 18 Dec 2014 08:13:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx2.suse.de Received: from cantor2.suse.de (HELO mx2.suse.de) (195.135.220.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:13:06 +0000 Received: from relay1.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0FC3AD85; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:13:02 +0000 (UTC) From: Andreas Schwab To: Doug Evans Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Provide ability to have "foo set bar" parameters in python References: X-Yow: Isn't this my STOP?! Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:13:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Doug Evans's message of "Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:18:26 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00511.txt.bz2 Doug Evans writes: > set/show parameters can either be added to the base "set/show" commands, > e.g., "set bar 42" > or they can be added to prefix commands > e.g., "foo set bar 42" The only current use is the maintenance prefix, all other set/show commands are at the top level. Is it really useful to have another prefix with set/show commands? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."