[Cocci] Usage of "expressions" and "identifiers" with SmPL

[Nikolaus@rath.org (Nikolaus Rath)]

On Oct 09 2016, SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> The only effect your emails had on me was a big "WTF!?".
>
> All of them (including the provided small SmPL script examples on
> 2016-10-05)?

You wrote three emails on that day. I assume you mean this one?

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| > 2. ..and how would I go about if instead of the type, I want to replace
| >    a variable name? (my_type *ptr --> my_type *pointer).
| 
| Would you like to try another small SmPL script out like the following?
| 
| 
| @name_replacement@
| @@
|  my_type *
| -ptr
| +pointer
|  ;
| 
| 
| How will your software development experiments evolve for the desired
| application of the semantic patch language?
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I'm afraid the answer is yes. Even though the snippet was relevant, its
presentation triggered the same WTF effect.


>>> Would you like to start another marketing project?
>> 
>> What's the point of all these random questions that you bring up in
>> response to every sentence?
>
> Did you inspect any items from the GitHub issue tracker?
[...]

Well, I tried to make a point here., but it quite obviously failed
utterly.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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