Re: Re: [PEPr] Changes in proposal for Text::Text_Highlighter

Jon Wood wrote: >On Tuesday 25 May 2004 15:22, Andrey Demenev wrote: >> Jon Wood wrote: >> > Would it be possible for the MySQL specific highlighter to extend a >> > general SQL highlighter, making it possible for people to simply extend >> > the core SQL standard highlighter for things like Postgre and Oracle as >> > well? >> >> If take a more close look at the package, you'll find out that creating >> a new highlighter is just a process of describing the highlighting rules >> in XML format. One could take the XML for general SQL and edit it to >> conform standards of a certain SQL dialect. That is really simple. At >> the moment I don't see any reason to implement any kind of inheritance. >> If you know such a reason, please let me know, >> >I guess it sounds tidy enough then, I'm just sucker for code reuse, which this >seems like a good place to use it - if 90%+ of the highlighting rules will be >the same, then it makes sense to me to keep that 90% in one file, which can >be fixed in the future for everything. > >How about being able to include other highlighter definitions within the XML? Lets keep it simple please. Subclassing is bad. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam