riccibruno added a comment.

In D57649#1382477 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D57649#1382477>, @aaron.ballman 
wrote:

> In D57649#1382470 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D57649#1382470>, @riccibruno 
> wrote:
>
> > Though it is a subjective distinction and in the end if someone need a flag 
> > it is going to be added I guess.
>
>
> That's the crux of how we've decided what information to expose in the past. 
> Some folks will expose the information when adding it to an AST node, but not 
> always. More often what happens is that someone finds they need that 
> information to help make an AST dump more readable, then the information gets 
> exposed at that point because there's a use case for it.


Which is exactly why I added this flag. From what I understand the AST dump is 
mostly a tool used by people hacking on clang, and so this make sense.


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