Re: [SPAM UNSURE] Standardizing tree-sitter fontification features

[Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>]

> On Nov 26, 2022, at 6:29 AM, Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:
> 
> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
> 
>> 
>> namespace would be useful; in some languages, like C++, the syntax
>> namespace::namespace::object.member makes it clear which identifiers are
>> namespaces. In others, like Ada the syntax is
>> namespace.namespace.object.member, so it's not clear.
> 
> Never mind; for Ada, this requires name resolution, which is beyond what
> tree-sitter can accomplish (same for the wisi parser). The
> ada_language_server does do name resolution, so it can label namespace
> accurately.

Indeed, I glance at their types and modifiers, and they are very rich in semantics, whereas we only have the syntax to work with.

Yuan