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29.0.50; tree-sitter fails to fontify or indent simple function

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Message #29 received at 59435 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>, 59435 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#59435: 29.0.50; tree-sitter fails to fontify or indent simple
 function
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 22:38:30 -0800

> On Nov 24, 2022, at 3:38 PM, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
> 
>> It's K&R C, which is used very rarely these days, and it sounds like the
>> next version of GCC will reject it, since C2x makes it invalid.
> 
> The GNU policy is to continue supporting old forms of syntax for many
> years after the latest version of a language specification has
> deprecated it.  Old programs are sometimes very important.  We should
> refuse to aid the crusades to compel people to "upgrade”.

If I can support them,I definitely would. It’s just that they’ll have a lower priority when I decide where to put my limited resources on. And we are definitely not actively removing any support.

Yuan

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