Re: c-submode-indicators at wrong place in minor-mode-alist

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Eli!

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:18:35 +0000 (GMT)
>> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
>>      address@hidden

>> >CC mode seems to have become much more complicated, but that might be
>> >because its much more powerful.  I don't know, I just find it hard to
>> >understand.

>> It is hard to understand.  Partly, it's because C and friends are such a
>> dreadful languages (to parse, that is ;-)

>Really? as compared to what?

As compared with Emacs Lisp, certainly.  ;-)

>From what I know, C is actually a relatively easily parsable language.

It is for a compiler, which parses from beginning to end.  It's more
difficult for Emacs, which has to parse incomplete text, often backwards.
It's very context dependent: when is a "<" a less-than sign, when is a
template delimiter (OK, we're talking about C++ now)?

>From font-lock.el:

;; I am most proud and humbly honoured today [murmur murmur cough] to present
;; to you good people, the winner of the Second Millennium Award for The Most
;; Hairy Language Syntax.  [Ahhh!]  All rise please.  [Shuffle shuffle
;; shuffle.]  And a round of applause please.  For...  The C Language!  [Roar.]

I don't know who wrote that, though.  Jamie Zawinski?  Simon Marshall?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)