llvm dev - Jul 2020 - TableGen terminology

Folks,

I'd like to get involved with LLVM and I'm thinking of doing a little
editing of the TableGen documents. After reading the Introduction and Reference
documents, I see that there is no consistent term for the fields of the records
that TableGen creates. They are referred to as fields, values, definitions, etc.

I propose to make this consistent with the term "field." Is that the
best choice? Other possibilities are "slot" and "item." I
think it's clear that "value" and "definition" are
confusing.

~~ Paul

"Paul C. Anagnostopoulos via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev at
lists.llvm.org> writes:
> I'd like to get involved with LLVM and I'm thinking of doing a
little
> editing of the TableGen documents. After reading the Introduction and
> Reference documents, I see that there is no consistent term for the
> fields of the records that TableGen creates. They are referred to as
> fields, values, definitions, etc.
>
> I propose to make this consistent with the term "field." Is that
the
> best choice? Other possibilities are "slot" and "item."
I think it's
> clear that "value" and "definition" are confusing.
+1 for "field."  I don't know if "field" is used in
other contexts
though.

"A record-level let expression is used to change the value of a value
definition in a record."

lolwat

                       -David