From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-08-09T03:48:29-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04368] Re: Thirty-seven Reasons [Hal Fulton]Love[s] Ruby

Hi,

"Hal E. Fulton" wrote:

> As for syntax highlighters... well, I don't think these need
> to be made that "smart." It doesn't actually hurt anything
> if a word is colored incorrectly... in fact, for those who want
> this coding style discouraged, an incorrectly-marked word
> would do so -- alerting the coder that he had (perhaps
> inadvertently) used a keyword as a method name or whatever.

Hmm. I'm not sure even Perl would stoop to dependency on what would look
to most users like a broken feature in another application instead of
providing an optional warning. :-) 

-- 
Conrad Schneiker
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