Let's stop parser Hell

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-08-01 07:44, Philippe Sigaud wrote:

> Does syntax highlighting need more that a token stream? Without having
> thought a lot about it, it seems to me IDE tend to highlight based
> just on the token type, not on a parse tree. So that means your lexer
> can be used directly by interested people, that's nice.

Some IDE's do a more advanced syntax highlighting based on the semantic 
analysis. For example, Eclipse highlights instance variables differently.

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/Jacob Carlborg