coloring

[Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>]

I just tried the TeX "listings" package, which pretty prints code. It
supports Ada so things were smooth. What annoyed me was that 'class wasn't
displayed in bold - since class isn't a reserved word. This is also the
behviour of AdaGide.

Since I didn't like this behaviour I tried adding "'class" to the list of
reserved words, and it seems to work. So now code like this:
package try_syntax is

   type Class is abstract tagged null record;
   procedure X(C:Class'Class);
end;

is displayed correctly.

To my eyes this nicer. Perhaps this should also be the behaviour of
AdaGide? Seeing clearly that a routine is class wide seems nice. This is
the kind of advantages a pretty-printer/colorizer should have, it seems to
me - I am not really interested when I edit the code to be merely reminded
what is a reserved word and what isn't.

Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
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