in reply to Re^2: Syntax highlighting for CPAN
in thread Syntax highlighting for CPAN

As for reasons why to use yet another parser, it might have something to do with wanting to parse code snippets, which may not even be complete valid Perl, and which are embedded in other text.

Most of the parsers I know tend to assume what you feed to them is supposed to be valid code, and is all supposed to be code.

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Re^4: Syntax highlighting for CPAN
by LanX (Saint) on Mar 24, 2011 at 15:42 UTC
    Good point, but IMHO perltidy is quite tolerant, I once spoke to a PHP haker who used it (well he had to care about regexing the comment symbols)

    IMHO false positives with keyword based highlighting is so distracting, that it's rapidly switched off.

    But maybe it's just me...

    Cheers Rolf

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