From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: haj@posteo.de (Harald Jörg)
Cc: 46024@debbugs.gnu.org, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#46024: Perl mode colors the word "argument" funny
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 19:38:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh10yfyu.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn1xu7ws.fsf@hajtower> ("Harald Jörg"'s message of "Fri, 22 Jan 2021 01:33:55 +0100")
haj@posteo.de (Harald Jörg) writes:
> So I wonder: What is the ambition of Emacs to support Raku? The
> languages Perl (Perl 5) and Raku (Perl 6) have diverged in their syntax,
> so robably it is rather cumbersome to support both with any of the Perl
> modes. In my opionion, randomly adding Raku features to the modes
> brings more confusion than productivity, and in any case keywords which
> are no longer part of either language should be eliminated, in
> particular: 'argument', which is the topic of this bug report.
Long term, it does seem like the best solution would be to have a
separate mode for Raku, and not keep tweaking (c)perl-mode to add Raku
features, I think.
So backing out this change ('argument' etc) sounds like a good idea to
me.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-22 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-21 20:05 bug#46024: Perl mode colors the word "argument" funny 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-01-22 0:33 ` Harald Jörg
2021-01-22 18:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-01-27 14:08 ` bug#46024: Perl mode colors the word "argument" funny [PATCH] Harald Jörg
2021-01-28 3:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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