Re: [vile] Possible bug in vile-perl-filter

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Steven Lembark wrote:

> Looking at the screen in 9.6d, using the stock
> vile perl filter:
>
>    $DB::single = 1;
>
> the "$DB" appears in 'variable' color but the
> '::single' portion of the variable name is
> black (text). This may just be a matter of
> adding ':' to the regex in flex for variable
> tokens.

something like that (remember that the perl filter is written in C, since
it's easier to handle obscure state transitions in a few lines of code).

In either case, the filter's just seeing "$DB" as a variable.  When I
last thought about it, the problem in my mind was whether I wanted to
maintain a namespace for the class members (perhaps not), or whether to
simply color all class members as variables.  But I hadn't considered
the "::" to be a regular part of the name.  Perhaps it should be, though
I'd think it would detract from readability...

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