Re: [PATCH] support a few of the new features of C++11 in syntax highlighting

[Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>]

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On 11/18/2014 08:36 AM, Rüdiger Sonderfeld wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 November 2014 15:47:43 Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>> Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
>>>>> The "alignof" keyword is the only one still missing.
>>>>
>>>> From the top of my head: override is also missing.
>>>
>>> Because "override" (and "final") are keywords only in certain semantic
>>> contexts, supporting them requires special care.
>>
>> override and final have the same context as `const' for methods, so we
>> could take that as a model. Skimming over cc-langs.el didn't show an
>> obvious place for it, though.
> 
> Yes, but "const" has a meaning in other places as well.  That's why it is 
> dealt with in `c-type-modifier-kwds'.  I think the problem is similar for 
> "noexcept".  I've simply added it to `c-type-modifier-kwds' for now.  But it's 
> actually the wrong place.  However unlike "override" and "final", there is 
> also an operator version of "noexcept".

C++11 introduced the noexcept and constexpr keywords. They're always keywords. "override" and "final" are different. Please don't go hack those into cc-engine. Better to leave them unfontified than to fontify perfectly good identifiers as keywords. They're not like "const" at all.


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