Re: perl-mode "::" as word character [patch]

[Stefan Monnier]

> Just dropping in for a teeny bit.  I was studying font-lock innards the
> other day and noticed that the perl-mode font lock does a lot of
> wrangling around the '::' sequence.  That's what's used in perl to
> divide package names from package members.  But instead of sticking
> \\(::\\sw\\)*s in after every \\sw, I noticed it'd be much simpler just
> to consider the double colon (NOT the single colon) to be a \\sw
> character.  Seems pretty cut and dried, since :: was only introduced to
> perl as a namespace separator, and can be wholly considered as if it
> were a word character.

Word syntax is clearly wrong.  Symbol syntax (i.e. "_") OTOH sounds right.

> Also since my experience has been that print/printf are used like
> keywords, but act like functions; they could use some special
> highlighting.  As for functions in general, both &\\(\\sw+\\) and
> \\(\\sw+\\)( match a function name in perl, but perl-mode only
> highlights the first expression as a function.

I don't think function calls should be highlighted, only function definitions.
But that's just me.

Could you (re)send a context diff rather than plain diff?


        Stefan