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- Subject: Re: Comments on Turbo (Borland) Pascal 7.0?
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:37:00 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.131557.7438@odin.diku.dk> <1992Nov18.174335.2758@exu.ericsson.se>
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- In article <1992Nov18.174335.2758@exu.ericsson.se>, exuhag@exu.ericsson.se writes...
- >Niels Ull Jacobsen writes:
- >>
- >>1: Source code highlighting
- >> [Stuff]
- >I have seen this feature in Borland C++ 3.1 and it has me wondering.
- >I think that having comments and code in different colors is a great
- >idea. But I can't figure out why anyone in their right mind would
- >want to have constants, keywords, and identifiers in different colors.
- >People made a big ruckus over Modula-2's forced "IF a = b THEN"
- >syntax, because it draws attention to keywords (similar to emphasizing
- >puncutation over sentence content, in many people's opinion).
-
- Well, the advantage of Borland's syntax highlighting is that YOU get to
- choses the emphisis. If you want, you can move keywords into the background,
- rather than having them over-emphisized. In fact this is one of the few
- places that the default VGA color palette works well for. You can uses the
- light green for variables, constants, etc; and use the dark green for
- keywords. This allows your eye to easily read along the code while still
- distinguishing between the different components of the syntax.
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