[PATCH] D14305: [IR] Add a "parameters" abstraction

Sanjoy Das via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Nov 3 15:39:52 PST 2015


sanjoy added a comment.

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D14305#280571, @reames wrote:

> I strongly dislike the use of parameter to refer to anything other than the call arguments.  Arguments and Parameters are so strongly associated in the literature that using them for a slightly different purpose would be actively confusing.
>
> Having an abstraction over both makes sense, but this is definitely the wrong name.


Fair enough -- do you have a suggestion?  The alternatives I can think of, `input` and `operand`, are both too generic.


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