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Offline (Male) Rusky
Reply #15 Posted on: April 02, 2010, 10:17:18 am

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Then you're not parsing all of C++.
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Offline (Male) Josh @ Dreamland
Reply #16 Posted on: April 02, 2010, 10:18:30 am

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Oh, you got me. Guess the project's a bust. Everyone, go home; I'll postpone the release until mid-January of next year and make sure I support things we don't need.

Like I said, GCC warns on them. It ignores them in doing so. You have to flip a special switch to enable them.
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Reply #17 Posted on: April 02, 2010, 10:42:05 am

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Ism and I discussed having an option for them as G++ does. I can devote fifteen minutes of my day to adding them in conditionally as long as she can support them in the code editor. I don't want any surprises, particularly involving escaped newlines outside of macros.

We've already removed preprocessors from them for simplicity (though you can use macros as defined elsewhere, of course).
If she adds the option and the highlighting (for escaped comments at the very least), they'll be in. As it stands, we're already behind on C++-strings, which is why they too are supported optionally. The code my end for either is simple; hers, not so much.
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Reply #18 Posted on: April 02, 2010, 10:47:47 am

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It really doesn't matter to me. If you want to add support in for something nobody's really going to use, go ahead. It won't bother me one bit. Nobody will complain if their rarely used coding quirks aren't syntax-highlighted properly. Adding an option is a simple checkbox and a field in the enigma backend. Adding syntax highlighting for, e.g. non-keywords, especially for things GML doesn't even support, is not on my list of things to do. In the end, I just provide you with a textbox that happens to be colorful. Of course a textbox supports ??/
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Reply #19 Posted on: April 02, 2010, 10:52:44 am

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That textbox will just trick users into thinking something wasn't commented, when it is. Hopefully a checkbox would filter that out from happening, but...

You know, I myself would happily leave trigraphs to fall to antiquity. It's true; basically no one does use them. If they did, maybe GCC wouldn't make you pass a flag to enable them, rather than having you pass one to disable them.

We're pretty close to a release. Too much so to be thinking about this sort of thing now, anyway. Bring it back up when you have someone that actually wants them. Or when Ism and I are long caught up with everything else and are looking bored.
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Reply #20 Posted on: April 02, 2010, 11:30:47 am

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It was pretty obvious that luis wasn't being serious when he brought up trigraphs. :P
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Offline (Male) Josh @ Dreamland
Reply #21 Posted on: April 02, 2010, 12:03:43 pm

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Serious or no, they're still a consideration. I can't think of a good reason to support them, even if ISO still finds them useful.
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Reply #22 Posted on: April 02, 2010, 12:29:04 pm

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Seriously?
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Reply #23 Posted on: April 02, 2010, 12:33:38 pm
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Trigraphs and digraphs are (I think) meant for computer keyboards which lack characters like ;&|{}
I think any ENIGMA user will have a keyboard with those keys.
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Offline (Male) Josh @ Dreamland
Reply #24 Posted on: April 02, 2010, 12:34:25 pm

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*chuckles a little*
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Offline (Unknown gender) MrJackSparrow2
Reply #25 Posted on: April 02, 2010, 11:23:56 pm
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Oh chuckling Santa, when will you give us our much awaited present? (Anaphase)
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