On Apr 14, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Tim X wrote:

> Todd Werth <twerth / infinitered.com> writes:
>>
>
> I think one of the real potential benefits of a more sophisticated  
> IDE is the
> ability to move from basic syntax highlighting of code to something  
> more like
> semantic highlighting of code. While syntax highlighting is nice,  
> syntax is
> usually only an issue when first learning a language. Once you have  
> experience,
> help with semantic issues is probably more beneficial.
>
> Tim
>
>>
If you need semantic highlighting in Ruby code, then you're doing  
something wrong semantically. Ruby code should generally be short and  
sweet and well organized into lots of files. The code blocks should  
be pretty self descriptive. Semantic highlighting defeats the point  
of syntax highlighting: the ability to see mistakes by color!