Hi everyone, For the past two weeks, I have been working on a Pygments syntax hilighter for Perl 6. It has finally reached a state where I feel it is ready to be tested by the community! If you have some Perl 6 code and some spare time, please test it out. The code is located here:
https://bitbucket.org/hoelzro/pygments-main/
There are a few known issues right now, but I don't consider them
significant enough to deter this announcement. Here they are:
* Lines like 'regex special_variable:sym<{ }>' (ones containing an
opening brace before the opening braces that signifies the start of
the regex/method) don't match properly.
* Some operators (like eq) are not parsed as operators.
* Parameters to a token (ex. token something(@params)) are not
correctly hilighted.
* Adding/subtracting to/from character classes (ex. <[...] + [...]>)
is not yet correctly hilighted.
* role q { ... } is hilighted as a keyword and a string literal.
In addition to fixing these, I intend to implement the following
features:
* Better type detection. Right now, a file is identified as Perl 6
if the shebang line matches 'perl6', or if 'use v6' is found. This
can be improved.
* Speed improvement. I haven't put any time into optimization, and
this can likely be improved.
If you find any bugs, or better yet, if you have any improvements to
submit, please let me know!
-Rob
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