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28.0.50; incorrect highlighting in C++ mode

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 50640 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: bug#50640: 28.0.50; incorrect highlighting in C++ mode
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:24:08 +0200

On 2022-08-26 13:42:24 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:
> 
> > There's really not much which can be done about this in CC Mode, sorry.
> > CC Mode's analysis of ambiguous C++ constructs is not very deep, so it
> > sometimes gets it wrong, as here.
> >
> > I would be in favour of closing this bug as "won't fix" (actually, can't
> > fix).
> 
> OK; closing this as a "wontfix", then.

Isn't it really possible to have an option to forbid && and ||
in <...> constructs?

I think that this would be useful in practice, because when && or ||
is involved, < and > around them probably mean comparisons.

Note that the issue is more general than nested < .. < .. > .. >.
Bad highlighting also occurs just with "a < b || c > d".

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