[filwit]

Ridiculous.

We use "special tools" for every other language (Visual Studios, Eclipse, etc).. Calling a language feature, which give programmers style freedom, a "tortured lexical structure" is not an objective argument. Especially since we have a tool (nimgrep) which addresses the issue and takes < minute to learn. Once Nim has better IDE support, no one will be grepping in the first place.

[quotemstr]

I don't need special tools to just _search_ a C++ or Java program.

Sure, I can use nimgrep, but I can't use _my_ grep, _my_ freetext indexer, _my_ editing constructs, and so on. I'm not going to make my environment, which works fine for almost all programming languages, bend over backwards to support your special snowflake of a language.

I'd rather just use something else.

[klibertp]

> to just _search_ a C++

Please, be serious.

> but I can't use _my_ grep, _my_ freetext indexer, _my_ editing constructs

Oh, but you can! These are _your_ tools, you can easily extend them by either scripting or modifying source, no problems there. Really, how much of a problem is adding a switch for underscore insensitivity to your program? Because I assume case insensitivity you had already coded.

Oh, unless by "_your_ grep" you meant a tool that someone else wrote and you're using without any real understanding of how it works and without required skill or knowledge to modify it. Right, this can happen, you're a busy man, have many obligations and no time at all to fiddle with grep. I understand.

But that also makes you completely outside of a target group of early adopters of new programming languages. So maybe stop commenting on them?