> On May 22, 2024, at 6:33 AM, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > > On 22/05/2024 15:17, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 02:27:08 +0300 >>> Cc:casouri@gmail.com,71070@debbugs.gnu.org >>> From: Dmitry Gutov >>> >>>> I understand all that, but still: can you (or someone else) answer my >>>> question about the accepted practices of IDEs in this matter: do they >>>> highlight the namespace identifiers differently than other >>>> identifiers, or do they use the same highlighting? >>> Does the attached screenshot answer the question? It's from VS Code. >> Thanks. Not sure I get it completely. It seems like namespace names >> are fontified like class names? They are not fontified like >> constants. > > Seems like it (although some themes might use some additional colors to differentiate between these two, the default theme does not). > > Perhaps it is done so that the expression foo::class_name reads naturally (in one color). Am I missing something? I got the exact opposite conclusion from the screenshot: it seems the effect is that namespaces are colored differently from class names: