ch-ch-update: series, closed-form series, and strides

[Frits van Bommel]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2009-01-31 19:26:08 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:
> 
>> So I think in the future it's a good bet for both programmers and 
>> editors to consider q{} quotes as containing code.
> 
> Hum, but since it's a string, shouldn't text editors highlight it as if 
> it was a string? I was going to do that in D for Xcode at some point... 
> perhaps I shouldn't.

I think it might be a nice idea to syntax-highlight those like regular 
code, but with a different background color. For instance white 
background for regular code, light yellow for q{}, and successively 
darker shades for nested q{q{q{}}} (up to some limit).
You'd have to make sure it stays readable though, so the background 
color should be a color that has sufficient contrast with foreground 
colors used for the code (e.g. don't pick the color used for regular 
strings(!) or keywords).

Just a thought...