Re: T_IMPORT vs. T_USE
| From: | Alexey Zakhlestin | Date: | Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:25:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: T_IMPORT vs. T_USE | ||
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On 10/18/07, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> wrote:
> Main problem I have right now after digging deeper is that any such "fix" in the
> parser will mean that tokenizers and syntax highlighters will not treat keywords like
> "import" correctly. Fixing this would require them to do parsing which in many cases you
> don't want to do. There are a lot of utilities and tools which depend on such behavior.
In my opinion, this is a problem with those syntax highlighters. This
problem can be nicely solved and textmate is an example of that. It
still relies on regular expressions, but it is context-aware
I am definitely on "less keywords is better" side
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Alexey Zakhlestin
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