GNU bug report logs - #59435
29.0.50; tree-sitter fails to fontify or indent simple function

Previous Next

Full log

Message #32 received at 59435 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 59435 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, casouri <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#59435: 29.0.50;
 tree-sitter fails to fontify or indent simple function
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 09:45:26 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 59435 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, casouri <at> gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:38:30 -0500
> 
>   > 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".

My point was that such code is extremely rare nowadays (or at least is
extremely rarely _edited_), and thus failure to fontify and/or indent it
correctly isn't a catastrophe IMO.  Unless you disagree with that opinion,
what you say is a tangent for this discussion (although I agree with what
you say regardless).

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.