rubyFunction, rubyClass, and rubyModule no longer highlighted

[Doug Kearns]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:55:46AM +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On 2/18/07, Tim Pope <vim-ruby-devel at tpope.info> wrote:
> 
> > A much simpler pattern (and one that actually works) is
> >
> > syn region  rubyFunction matchgroup=rubyControl start="\<def\>\s*"    end="\ze\%(\s\|(\|;\|$\)" oneline
> 
> Even simpler (and faster):
> 
> syn region  rubyFunction matchgroup=rubyDefine start="\<def\>\ze\s*"
>  end="\ze\%([[:space:](;:#]\|$\)" oneline

Why have you included the semicolon in the end pattern?  def Foo::bar; end
 
> When using a backtracking regex matcher (juck!), using [[:space:]]
> over \s and a branch in this instance is "a lot" faster.

I'll keep that in mind - thanks.
 
> But why aren't we doing this with something simpler like

Insufficiently refactored legacy 'code' I suspect. ;-)
 
> syn keyword rubyDefine def nextgroup=rubyFunction skipwhite skipnl
> syn match rubyFunction '\h\w*'
> 
> ?  That's as simple and fast as it gets, and it's more true to the
> Ruby syntax, because you can write things like
> 
> def
>   a
>   puts 'Hi, I'm method a!'
> end

I reckon we have a winner in principle.  Although that final pattern is
obviously an oversimplification eg. def foo.bar;end and def Foo::bar;end

Unfortunately, it doesn't work either due to all the def <-> end
matching malarkey. *sigh*

I'll take a look at it tonight.

Thanks,
Doug