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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Color sensitivity?  No, BUT....
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Date: 26 Apr 89 00:13:00 GMT
References: <12565@lanl.gov> <9968@claris.com>
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In article <9968@claris.com>, krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson) writes:
> From article <12565@lanl.gov>, by jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles):
> > Consider a program with 512 different variables,
> > all spelled "a".  How would _YOU_ like to try to debug such a monster?
> What I would like is the ability to change text styles, sizes, colors, and
> fonts within my code.  I could, for example, have all my comments in a smaller
> point size than my code.  Or I could make critical sections of code red.
> The code itself would still be just the text... Comments??

One thing *I've* wanted is the ability include pictures in comments (for
example, imagine feeding a MacWrite file to the Macintosh C compiler).
The ability to include real drawings of box-and-pointer diagrams could
immensely clarify some hairy pieces of code now and then.  Occaisionally
I have stooped to ASCII graphics, but somehow they just don't work as well.

And then again, having fonts be significant in variable names would make
it easy to have variables like "script-G" that pop up in Quantum Mechanics...
(No, I am NOT serious.  :-)
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John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (508) 626-1101
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