"Jarrett Billingsley" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Nick Sabalausky<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Although, what some people have said about just coloring it in an editor 
>> is
>> not a bad point (althogh it seems like we may be starting to run out of
>> colors...).
>
> If your syntax highlighting is using so many colors that you're
> worried about running out, then your syntax highlighting is using too
> many colors ;)
>
> I never understood why some syntax highlighters make your code look
> like a goddamned rainbow threw up on it.  There are so many colors
> that they stop meaning anything.  Kate's default D highlighting scheme
> comes to mind as a particularly heinous offender.  Do we really need
> different colors for 1, 0x1, 0b1, 01, and 1.0?  They're all numbers.
> How about different highlighting for *every kind of string literal*?

A different color for 01 would be nice until that abomination finally gets 
thrown out. But I do understand your point. 


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