[Qt-interest] Syntax Highlighter State Stack

[Scott Aron Bloom]

What does this have to do with QT?  This is simple C++ data structure
theory.

Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com [mailto:qt-interest-
> bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Neel Basu
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 9:51 AM
> To: Qt Interest
> Subject: [Qt-interest] Syntax Highlighter State Stack
> 
> I am Making a Syntax Highlighter for PHP
> there are a lot of states such as
> 		enum State{
> 			NormalState = -1,
> 			InPHPCodeBlock,
> 			InFunction,
> 			InClass,
> 			InMultiComment,
> 			InCurlyBraces
> 		};
> Now Its possible that some code block is in InMultiComment which is in
> InFnction which is in InPHPCodeBlock
> It is not possible to keep informations about these states in a single
integer
> variable.
> (Is it ??)
> So I thought to keep a vector for this enum values which will be used
as a
> StateStack
> 
> Now the question is am I on the right Track ?? or there are easier or
safer or
> more standard alternatives ??
> 
> Neel
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