On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:23:08 +0200 Bernd Kreuss <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > is it only me ore are there others who find the following behaviors of > the pascal syntax highlighter in lazarus strange and inconsistent and > sometimes even annoying? > > * some types (String and AnsiString) are highlighted, all other types > (built in or not) are not highlighted. IMHO no type names should be > highlighted. String is a keyword. You can not redefine it. Ansistring is for historical reasons highlighted as keyword too. > * all reserved words for control flow (for, to, if, then, do, else, > repeat, until, while, begin, end, try, except, finally, raise, goto) are > highlighted, the only ones that are not highlighted are break, continue > and exit. IMHO all such reserved words that describe the program > structure should be highlighted. For example break and exit are of the > same caliber as raise (or even goto) and also used for similar design > patterns, I don't see why they should be treated differently. break, continue and exit are not keywords. They could be redefined. > I have tried to think about it long and hard but I cannot find any > reason that would justify these anomalies other than maybe some > historical reasons. For example a (hypothetical) reason that string is > internally working in a different way than a Double or an Integer IMHO > does not justify any different syntax highlighting, they all still > belong into the same *category*: they appear in var declarations as type > names and are used like type names everywhere no different than any > other type name, so they consequently should look like type names and > not like language keywords. I'm sure Martin is already thinking about making this optional. ;) Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
