[PATCH] D67825: [AST] Extract Decl::printNestedNameSpecifier helper from Decl::printQualifiedName
Aaron Ballman via Phabricator via cfe-commits
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Fri Sep 20 05:28:36 PDT 2019
aaron.ballman accepted this revision.
aaron.ballman added a comment.
LGTM!
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Comment at: clang/include/clang/AST/Decl.h:317-318
+ /// this function returns "A::B::".
+ void printQualifier(raw_ostream &OS) const;
+ void printQualifier(raw_ostream &OS, const PrintingPolicy &Policy) const;
+
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ilya-biryukov wrote:
> aaron.ballman wrote:
> > I'm not keen on "qualifier" here because types have qualifiers. How about `printNestedNameSpecifier()`?
> Now I understand why we clang uses 'nested name specifier' everywhere!
> Renamed per your suggestions.
> FWIW, I would rather use `NameQualifier` and `TypeQualifier` to disambiguate between the two.
> `NestedNameSpecifier` is a bit too long for my taste. But happy to stick with the conventions in the codebase.
I think it'd be a pretty large undertaking to hit all of the places where we talk about qualifiers to get to the point where that distinction makes sense. I think we should just stick with nested name specifier, as that's a term of art from the standard for this concept.
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