On Mon 09 Mar 2009 at 02:35PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> I've gone back and forth on this, and those were the other options I saw.
> Maybe doing an incompatible change is the right answer:
>
> ::walk [-v var] <walker> [args]
>
> This is something which is rarely used, and a getopt-style option is a better
> way to handle it. I shied away from it because of the incompatible change
> to a committed interface.
So I guess maybe we need Mike's input. I'm cautiously in favor of
changing it, but I don't know how much scripting might be out there
which depends upon this, or how strongly he might feel that this
distorts the original intent.
(As an aside I don't really like my own choice of -v... -a (assign)
perhaps? -b (bind?))
It is a debugger, after all, and largely designed for use by humans--
scripting it has not seemed to me to have been the design center or the
norm. Rather, dcmds are available for that purpose.
The getopt style, above, has the additional benefit that we could
potentially add more options should the need arrive-- although I
think it would be good to be conservative.
-dp
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Daniel Price, Solaris Kernel Engineering http://blogs.sun.com/dp
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