[Qt-creator] [patch] C++ syntax highlighting and the (unused) 'style' format.

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On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:57 AM,  <roberto.raggi at nokia.com> wrote:
> from a quick look at your patch it seems that you're highlighting cv-qualifiers, storage-class-specifiers and a subset of type-specifiers but i'm wondering why?
>
> why do you think it is a good idea to highlight "extern", "mutable", "register" and so on as types?
Storage class specifiers auto, register and mutable only ever apply to
"variables" and cv-qualifiers even when used on member functions
merely qualify "this". Then i've picked those type specifiers that
didn't require any semantic interpretation to disambiguate.
Seemed somewhat consistent (also in line with what other lexer based
syntax highlighters do, more or less).

Now i have to admit including "extern" and "static" was rather
arbitrary (and ambiguous).

> Yep, we should use the Semantic Highlighter instead.
As far as i can see it's only available in trunk and not yet enabled,
but that's interesting.

> I won't be in the office this week but if you are interested we can continue this discussion on #qt-creator next week.
Excellent.