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bug#36678: 27.0.50; imenu not working in C++ (maybe because of namespace
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
bug#36678: 27.0.50; imenu not working in C++ (maybe because of namespace) |
Date: |
Sun, 4 Aug 2019 08:51:06 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
Hello, Richard.
On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 22:56:19 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> > CC Mode has had imenu type indexing right from its inception. What is
> > changing is the increasing complexity of function definitions, in
> > particular, the slow demise of the convention of function names being in
> > column zero.
> Why is that happening? Is there a practical benefit, or is it just
> a matter of fashion, or what?
In C++, it's largely the namespace, which is being used ever more.
Instead of writing
namespace foo {
int bar (int baz)
{
.....
}
.....
}
, people are indenting within the namespace, something like
namespace foo {
int bar (int baz)
{
....
}
....
}
. Not all the time, but a lot of the time, possibly most of the time.
This indentation inside a namespace seems like a natural way to format a
program, and people are going to carry on doing it.
The issue is how we best deal with this.
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
> Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).