keyword specification 19.x vs. 20.x

[Sylvia Murphy]

greetings,

i am creating a major emacs mode for the NCAR command language (NCL).  

I started with simple syntax highting.  This worked great in v. 19.34 but
not in v. 20.x

Since I am hacking this together from various examples on the web, I am
undoubtedly missing something.

The form of my keywords specifications is as follows:
(defvar ncl-keywords
   '(( "\\<\\(.....\\)\\>" 1 font-lock-keyword-face)
     (........ 1 font-lock-variable-face)
     (........ 1 font-lock-function-face))
     "keywords used in ncl-mode")


then in defun ncl-mode() i have
  (setq font-lock-keywords ncl-keywords)
  (font-lock-mode 1)
  (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t)
  (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults)
  (setq font-lock-defaults 'ncl-keywords)
  
  
  
  etc.
  
  when i run in emacs 20.x  and even try to manually institute the 
global-font-lock i get the following error:
  
  "wrong type of arguments listp ncl-keywords"
  
  
  This seems to point to a syntax error in the creation of ncl-keywords. What
  has changed between 19.x and 20.x that effect this?
  
  
  thanks,
  
  sylvia


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