[PATCH] D100867: [TableGen] [docs] Improve description of NAME in Programmer's Reference

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

Paul-C-Anagnostopoulos added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/docs/TableGen/ProgRef.rst:65-66
 the programmer or generated by TableGen. Associated with that name
-is a list of *fields* with values and an optional list of *superclasses*
-(sometimes called base or parent classes). The fields are the primary data that
+is a list of *fields* with values and an optional list of *parent classes*
+(sometimes called base or super classes). The fields are the primary data that
 backends will process. Note that TableGen assigns no meanings to fields; the
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dblaikie wrote:
> Not sure how the wording is used in other parts of the TableGen docs, but since LLVM's a C++ oriented project, maybe we should standardize/lean towards the C++ terminology as being the canonical one, which would be "base" class?
Here we are talking about a record inheriting from a class. I can't find any standard name for that class. Is "base class" the standard? As far as I can tell, "base," "parent," and "super" all pertain to the class hierarchy.


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