Getting the lexing right for the syntax highlighting will be a little
bit more work than I thought. Right now, DrJava tokenizes numbers like
3.14 separately as “3” “.” “14”, and then it highlights “3” and “14”
as numbers. That approach never was quite right, but I think it gets
even uglier with the new literals.
I’m continuing the process of giving the compiler adapters more
responsibility. The first step that I made for supporting HJ and Mint
was to put the list of keywords into the adapters. I was now going to
put the highlight determination into the adapters, but it seems like I
may have to put tokenization there as well.
Of course, that fits well with plans of eventually supporting more languages, and languages that differ more.
