From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-04 18:55:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.bc.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Organization: Canadian Mind Products Reply-To: roedy@mindprod.com Message-ID: References: <3B0DD011.88FCD00E@acm.org> <83WP6.3874$yc6.728572@news.xtra.co.nz> <3B1411D0.3AAF42E7@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9f2nks$ibd$0@dosa.alt.net> <3B177EF7.2A2470F4@facilnet.es> <9f8b7b$h0e$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f8r0i$lu3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9fgagu$6ae$1@nh.pace.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 01:55:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.76.128.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.bc.home.com 991706126 24.76.128.193 (Mon, 04 Jun 2001 18:55:26 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 18:55:26 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8112 comp.lang.awk:2741 comp.lang.clarion:21066 comp.lang.java.programmer:73535 comp.lang.pl1:738 comp.lang.vrml:3467 Date: 2001-06-05T01:55:26+00:00 List-Id: On 4 Jun 2001 19:40:29 -0500, Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote or quoted : >> What I find so strange is something as simple as variable >> sized/coloured {} and () to make visual balancing easier still has not >> caught on. > >What makes you say it has not caught on ? > >Several editors do syntax coloring for Ada, and the Alpha editor also >does it for C, C++, Fortran, HTML, Java, Pascal, Modula-2, Perl, >Postscript, Scheme, SQL, Tcl, TeX, LaTeX and LaTeX I did not explain clearly. I don't just mean making all {} some colour different from the rest of text, but to make them match pairwise in increasing size with nesting depth, possibly also using different shade with matching pairs the same shade. See http://mindprod.com/bali.html where you can see some examples of what it might look like. For more detail, please look up the key words mentioned in this post in the Java Glossary at: http://mindprod.com/gloss.html If you don't see what you were looking for, complain! or send your contribution for the glossary. -- Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products Custom computer programming since 1963. Ready to take on new work.