At 23:30 25.04.2001 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Aron Brener wrote:
>
> > When I was using version 2.7 I used SyntaxHighlighting to highlight
> > my code. I upgraded to 3.0 and loaded it into my image. It worked ok
> > for a while but not it gives me a mnu #writeOnScan:
>
>Question: why use this instead of pretty printing with color?

I like it because it leaves the formatting intact.  Just look what pretty 
printing does to code like Preferences 
class>>initializeSyntaxColorsAndStyles (the remnant of yet another style 
system, hehe).  I also find code formatted like Integer>>take: easier to 
read without pretty printing that with it.  Like I said, personal 
preference, and we sure could customize pretty printing instead.

On the other hand, yes, the highlighting as-is is far from perfect (try 
ByteArray>>shortAt:put:bigEndian:), and one may argue whether it is 
desirable to duplicate so much Parser functionality...

On the gripping hand, I'm so used to it.  Helps me recognize global and 
class references in a glimpse.

The "rewrite" that is mentioned on my page is actually somewhat down on the 
list right now... :-/

Cheers,
Helge

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