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Re: [PATCH] Redefine skip_quoted
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>
- To: Klee Dienes <klee at apple dot com>
- Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>, Adam Fedor <fedor at doc dot com>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 16 Oct 2002 02:26:01 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Redefine skip_quoted
- References: <95706CBA-DFBC-11D6-A1B6-00039396EEB8@apple.com>
Klee Dienes <klee@apple.com> writes:
> In the Apple code, we use skip_quoted to allow for the possibility of
> spaces in Objective-C function names.
>
> I'm actually coming to think that allowing people to break on unquoted
> Objective-C methods was a mistake: it's caused us no end of trouble
> trying to shoehorn decode_line_1() into handling every possible
> edge-case. I'm not sure how practical it is for us to remove it at
> this point, though --- we'd have to do some research among our
> Objective-C developers to find out how important a feature it is to
> them, I think.
So, the original patch posted is preparation for a behavior which you
now suspect was a mistake, and which has caused you no end of trouble?
(Or do I have the sense of what you were saying reversed?) You can
forgive me if hearing that makes me a bit hesitant to approve the
patch, right? :)