From: Ed Sinjiashvili <edsin@...>
Date: 2002-05-31T13:22:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Syntax Highlighting (and a Ruby Parser BUG)

Lothar Scholz <llothar@web.de> writes:

> situation right. If you replace the string  "mystring" with the string
> ")}mystring" so that the line becomes
> 
> print "String #{ ($a={1=>2, 2=> "})mystring" , 4=>6}).length }"
> 
> the parser signals a syntax error. This is a RUBY (1.6.7) bug.
1.6.7 parser will handle this:
print "String #{ ($a={1=>2, 2=> "\})mystring" , 4=>6}).length }"

> The more time i spend with this terrible ruby syntax the more i think
IMO, syntax is not terrible at all - it's just the current parser
implementation being crippled a little. I'm sure it will be cleaned up
soon. I don't think that you should handle special cases 
> it should be cleaned up from all this special cases that saves you
> (in the best case) not more then 4 keystrokes.
> 
> And finally a question: 
> 
> What do you expect from editor syntax highlighting ?
> 
> Until now i believed heuristics are evil, because the different colors
> are there to show you errors immediately. But with this ruby example
> i'm not sure any more. And i don't think that any of the other ruby
> tools are working correctly.