highlight_colors Namespace Reference

Variables
const char *const	expected = "highlight-a"
const char *const	actual = "highlight-b"
const char *const	lhs = "highlight-a"
const char *const	rhs = "highlight-b"

Detailed Description

Symbolic names for highlighting colors in diagnostics.
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Symbolic names for highlight colors in diagnostics, so that e.g.
   in

warning: format `%i' expects argument of type `int',
 but argument 2 has type `const char *' [-Wformat=]
  279 |   printf("hello " INT_FMT " world", msg);
      |          ^~~~~~~~                   ~~~
      |                                     |
      |                                     const char *
note: format string is defined here
  278 | #define INT_FMT "%i"
      |                  ~^
      |                   |
      |                   int
      |                  %s

    we can refer to the color of "int" as highlight_colors::expected
    and the color of "const char *" as highlight_colors::actual
    to help get consistent contrasting colorization, both for the types
    within the diagnostic messages, and the underlined ranges.   

Variable Documentation

actual

const char *const highlight_colors::actual = "highlight-b"

extern

expected

const char *const highlight_colors::expected = "highlight-a"

extern

Color names for expressing "expected" vs "actual" values.   

lhs

const char *const highlight_colors::lhs = "highlight-a"

extern

Color names for expressing "LHS" vs "RHS" values in a binary operation
or when we are listing two different things.   

Color names for expressing "LHS" vs "RHS" values in a binary operation.   

rhs

const char *const highlight_colors::rhs = "highlight-b"

extern