Not to be snarky, but that's why we put comments in headers... Jim
> On Feb 3, 2017, at 4:47 PM, Zachary Turner via Phabricator > <revi...@reviews.llvm.org> wrote: > > zturner added a comment. > > I guess the same way you would know how to use any part of a library or API. > The first time you've ever used an API, you don't know how it works, so you > don't know it's capabilities. So you fiddle around, read the source code, > trudge through some compiler errors, then you learned some more about how it > works. Probably someone using this would try to print something, and get a > compiler error that triggers a helpful static_assert which says "missing > format provider for type = Foo!". That gives them the next piece of the > puzzle they need to understand a little bit more. Or they look at the code > for `formatv` to see how it works and see all the documentation. > > It sounds analogous to asking "how does someone new to the codebase know that > commands in LLDB are implemented by something which inherits from > CommandObject?". Of course you don't if you're brand new, but once you > figure it out you don't really have to spend much time thinking about it > again. > > > https://reviews.llvm.org/D29510 > > > _______________________________________________ lldb-commits mailing list lldb-commits@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-commits
