Re: cc-mode fontification feels random

[Stefan Monnier]

>> All I meant is that given the increase of performance of CPUs (until the
>> beginning of this century) and a non-corresponding increase in file size
>> and complexity of language syntax, programmers nowadays prefer correct
>> behavior over fast behavior, since the correct behavior is fast enough
>> anyway to be bearable.
> Not in CC Mode, not IMO anyway.  But perhaps you don't consider what
> CC Mode does to be "correct behavior".

My comment was about using hacks like
`open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start` to avoid scanning from BOB in
`syntax-ppss/propertize`.

> And then, of course, there's a question "what is correct"?  When I see
> something like
>
>    static foo_t __attribute__((bar)) myvar;
>
> I'm not sure I'd care if everything before "myvar" would be in the
> same face and "myvar" in another face.  IOW, it isn't necessarily
> important to me that fontification knows that foo_t is a type and not
> a keyword.  So searching the file (and perhaps other files) for the
> definition of foo_t isn't important -- for the purposes of
> fontification.

FWIW, my `font-lock-type-face` is customized to:

    '(font-lock-type-face ((t)))

so I'll let you guess my opinion on this ;-)


        Stefan