Explicitly saying ref or out when invoking a function

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Tue Aug 11 21:21:38 PDT 2009


"Jarrett Billingsley" <jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.329.1250026310.14071.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Nick Sabalausky<a at a.a> wrote:
>> Although, what some people have said about just coloring it in an editor 
>> is
>> not a bad point (althogh it seems like we may be starting to run out of
>> colors...).
>
> If your syntax highlighting is using so many colors that you're
> worried about running out, then your syntax highlighting is using too
> many colors ;)
>
> I never understood why some syntax highlighters make your code look
> like a goddamned rainbow threw up on it.  There are so many colors
> that they stop meaning anything.  Kate's default D highlighting scheme
> comes to mind as a particularly heinous offender.  Do we really need
> different colors for 1, 0x1, 0b1, 01, and 1.0?  They're all numbers.
> How about different highlighting for *every kind of string literal*?

A different color for 01 would be nice until that abomination finally gets 
thrown out. But I do understand your point. 





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