aaron.ballman added reviewers: dblaikie, sammccall.
aaron.ballman added subscribers: sammccall, dblaikie.
aaron.ballman added a comment.

In D149677#4350337 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D149677#4350337>, @li.zhe.hua 
wrote:

> In D149677#4349523 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D149677#4349523>, @aaron.ballman 
> wrote:
>
>> In D149677#4320178 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D149677#4320178>, @li.zhe.hua 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Some additional context: I'm working on a refactoring tool to, in part, 
>>> deprecate an alias by replacing it with its definition. That functionality 
>>> by itself could be provided through something like a clang-tidy, so I say 
>>> "initially".
>>
>> We typically don't add new printing policies in tree without some need for 
>> them in the project itself (otherwise this becomes a maintenance problem), 
>> and I'm not certain I see a strong need for this to live in Clang. I think 
>> it might be best to wait until you're closer to having a clang-tidy check 
>> that would use this functionality before we continue with this patch. WDYT?
>
> I believe there is value for having this option, as without it, the 
> `PrintingCallbacks::isScopeVisible` callback is effectively useless in 
> practice. It won't be triggered in non-canonical types because the 
> `ElaboratedType` represents a fixed qualification on the name.
>
> Note: there may be an argument for folding this functionality directly into 
> `FullyQualifiedName` (which currently affects template-ids despite the 
> comment on it suggesting it only is for function names). If the template name 
> was elaborated, `FullyQualifiedName` does nothing, which seems 
> inconsistent/incorrect.

Adding @dblaikie as he might have some opinions here.

I'm not seeing how the changes you've got here interact with 
`isScopeVisible()`; However, I also note that the only use of 
`isScopeVisible()` in tree is in clangd, so also adding @sammccall to see if 
they're hitting issues there or not.


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