Joy "syntax" highlighting

cpcogan — 2007-01-07 21:38:49

About the editor described in my previous post: 



For Joy "syntax" highlighting, I plan to flag the brackets for lists

and sets, do color-flagging for comments, definitions, strings,

directives, and maybe a basic set of combinators. I might also flag

special comments for documenting functions external to the functions

themselves (documentation that could be automatically scraped out of

the source and used to generate a basic reference for programmers).



One thing I hope to do is make brackets blink in pairs when you move

the mouse cursor over either bracket of a pair, so you can easily tell

where the other bracket is. I'm even considering having a mechanism

whereby all of the required parameters for a function could be flagged

visually, so the reader see instantly know whether he's got all the

required items on the stack. This would be done by including some

information in the definition of a function (probably in a special

comment) that would be accessible to the editor.