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VS Code - APL Language support (syntax, snippets)
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Syntax highlighting requires blank between ⋄ and :endif #1

Open mbaas2 opened 5 years ago

mbaas2 commented 5 years ago

Does not color ...⋄:endifcorrectly.

aplteam commented 4 years ago

Well, putting ⋄ and control structures on the same line is a very bad idea. So, rather putting an effort into "fixing" this my advice is: don't do this.

As long as the Dyalog debugger does not process diamondized lines properly, putting them on one line defeats the whole purpose of control structures: you won't see which code is executed and which isn't.

mbaas2 commented 4 years ago

I agree that a better handling in the tracer would be nice. But I disagree with the conclusion about not fixing this. NB: This would also affect cases like

:if Condition
   DoThis ⋄:endif

which are frequently use. That can be traced/debugged just fine, but the syntax colouring does not kick in for the 2nd line.