Re: CC-mode highlight change between 24.5 and 25

[Oleh Krehel <oleh@oremacs.com>]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Can you help me out here, please - by what criterion is the C++ compiler
> deciding that `fout' is a variable initialised to `file_name' rather
> than a function declaration?  The only syntactic thing I can see for
> this is that `fout' is declared inside a function rather than at the top
> level (or directly inside a class, struct, or namespace).

I think it very uncommon to declare a function inside another function
in C++: it's done in top-level instead.

I would be happy enough with the heuristic of parsing all indented
(i.e. not top-level) declarations/definitions as (variable) definitions.

    Oleh