Re: [PATCH - preliminary] turn off syntax tables

Andy> I'm throwing out this patch for discussion. It's kind of hard to discuss something which is probably about half (or more) unnecessary. This is more or less just an #ifdef merge of the version before Matt's patch and current 21.4, right? Eg, I saw dozens of changes from "re_bool" to "boolean" and others like changing "comstyle" back to "mask", which are probably purely cosmetic, and if so, undesirable. Please do work up something more concise. Andy> This patch makes the syntax table support optional through Andy> configure. If we're not going to revert the feature entirely, we should make it a runtime option. Perl programmers (cperl being the only current mode that uses the syntax-table property, although Alan Mackenzie is threatening us with another one) program C and Java too! -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py