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In D66990#1656230 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D66990#1656230>, @nridge wrote:

> >> I think the way cquery does it 
> >> <https://github.com/cquery-project/vscode-cquery/blob/4aac325dcf0735aa5d5f98960f28d6af6ca83d50/src/extension.ts#L84>
> >>  it better in this regard: in place of a single kind enum, they 
> >> essentially have a 4-tuple of `(kind, parent kind, storage class, role)`.
> > 
> > A design like this definitely makes more sense. I was thinking of a 
> > slightly simpler model: adding a set of "modifiers" to each highlighting 
> > should be enough to encode all of it, e.g. a modifier 'is class member' 
> > could be used to distinguish methods and fields from global functions and 
> > variables, a modifier 'is usage' can be used to distinguish usages from 
> > declarations, etc.
> >  But there's no combinatorial explosion in the cquery's model, which is the 
> > important bit.
>
> I will suggest this for the upstream protocol and see where that goes.


For reference, I made this suggestion here 
<https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-languageserver-node/pull/367#issuecomment-536363837>.


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