Re: [MI] -stack-list-variables

[nickrob at snap dot net dot nz (Nick Roberts)]

 > > How about the format below?:
 > > 
 > > -stack-list-variables --no-values
 > > ^done,variables={args=[{name="i"},{name="j"}],
 > >                  locals=[{name="asdf"},{name="m"},{name="zxcv"},{name="qwert"}]}
 > 
 > Why would frontend care about which are locals and which are arguments? I don't
 > think I saw any GUI than distinguish between those in variables view.

CLI treats them as completely different ("info args", "info locals") as MI
did previously (-stack-list-locals, -stack-list-arguments).  To the programmer,
I think they are quite different: argument values are passed in, local values
aren't.  If the front end doesn't care, it can always group these together.

 >                                                                       Even
 > if we decide this information is necessary, would it not be better to present it
 > like this:
 > 
 > 	^done,variables=[{name="i", arg="1"},{name="asdf"}]
 > 
 > as this format is more extensible in case some other frontend might need
 > even more finer details?

I don't see how this helps.  Breaking locals and args down further would require
a new command for backward compatibilty reasons.

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