Re: [PATCH] Add Pascal/Delphi (.pas file) funcname pattern.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 1, 2008, 20:16 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8wvgsd6s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1217619915-9331-1-git-send-email-apenwarr@gmail.com>

"Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:

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> Finds classes, records, functions, procedures, and sections.  Most lines
> need to start at the first column, or else there's no way to differentiate
> a procedure's definition from its declaration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> The Ruby funcname pattern patch inspired me.  Although unlike him, I didn't
> check with anyone else for confirmation.  How many Pascal programmers can
> there possibly be? :)

> +	{ "pas", "\\(^\\(procedure\\|function\\|constructor\\|"
> +			"destructor\\|interface\\|implementation\\|"
> +			"type|initialization|finalization\\).*$\\)"
> +			"\\|\\(^.*=[ \t]*\\(class\\|record\\).*$\\)" },

Is Delphi the only surviving Pascal? Why is the name "pas", not "pascal" or even "delphi-pascal"?

The keys are not file extensions ("ruby" example did the right thing by not saying "rb").