[SVN] Naming convention

Chris Thomas chris at cjack.com
Sat Apr 23 17:50:09 UTC 2005 

On Apr 23, 2005, at 4:42 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On Apr 23, 2005, at 12:33, Mats Persson wrote:
>
>> 1.    Markup languages like <html> or <xml> is described as  
>> "keyword.markup". Should "markup" not be its own root just like  
>> "variable" has become ??
>
> I think Chris can probably give a better answer, but I'd think it's  
> because with a very basic styling (e.g. of only keyword, constant,  
> variable, string and comment), the tag-name should probably be  
> styled like a keyword.

Right, the idea is to minimize the amount of (thinking|work) somebody  
has to do to make a fully usable basic theme.

>  declaration.tag
>    tag-name
>    tag-attribute
>    tag-value

Sounds good to me.

> Looking at these lists though, it screams “dot-separated hierarchy”  
> for the fragments of the three types of declaration, so instead we  
> get: name.class, name.function, name.tag -- that way, styling only  
> “name” will be enough to give colors to all 3 elements (which are  
> rarely present in the same source, so that's probably good enough  
> for most).

Yes, please.

>> 2.    "Variable" in my world is $variable (in PHP), @variable in  
>> Ruby, whereas INT_MAX would be a "constant" in my book. I guess I  
>> might be missing something here ;-)
>
> Yes, INT_MAX is also a constant IMHO, I just couldn't think of a  
> variable, because in the majority of languages I use, a variable is  
> not possible to markup. But I see the picture now :)

"Constant" is a different story. Currently, "constant" actually means  
"literal", and probably we should delete "constant" and have  
"literal" and "variable.constant" instead.

Chris

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