On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:15:22AM -0400, Paul Koning
wrote:
> The goal of supporting Python scripting should be to
provide an
> environment that is familiar to Python programmers.
No, I don't think so. The goal of supporting Python
scripting is
to make it easy to implement useful and usable GDB commands
in a
way accessible to Python programmers.
These are functions which will be directly shown to the
user. We
need _consistency_ in how their arguments are passed;
experience has
shown that inconsistency is a serious problem. I don't
think any
sort of polymorphism is going to be necessary or desirable
in
practice.
Don't confuse this with typing. It's just going to say
EXPRESSION
and if you want to handle strings and ints, that's fine.
The "caller"
is the human user typing some characters.
Can you give me an example of where it would be more useful
not to
do it this way? Regardless of the details of how we
pre-specify
arguments.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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