phosek added a comment.

I apologize about the delayed response. I had time to think about this a bit 
more and it's not really clear to me if we need to preserve the "plus/minus" 
flag syntax. Looking through the history, it seems that it was introduced in 
D2538 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D2538> without any discussion but I always 
considered it to be confusing and potentially error-prone. Rather than 
supporting two different syntaxes, which introduces more complexity, I'd prefer 
having just one. I can of think of two approaches:

1. Have two separate lists of include and exclude flags.
2. Store flags as a tuple (or a struct?) of string and a tag (that is include 
or exclude).

Do you have any preference between one these two approaches? Can you think of 
alternatives? It's going to take a bit of effort to migrate all the existing 
use cases of the "plus/minus" syntax, but I hope it should be mostly 
mechanical. I'd be happy to help with the migration once we settle on an API.


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