Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: exuberant-ctags
This seems to be a major design flaw: all comments and strings are
parsed just as if there were keywords. That is to say if you have
comments or strings containing keyword-like patterns they are regarded
as valid definitions by ctags when they clearly are not.
This could well be a problem across all languages, but I would not be
able to confirm that.
Python and PHP examples copied below.
File: example.php
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<?php
/**
* Let's define a new class aye?
*/
class TestClass {
// function test
function __toString() {
return "you called the function named __toString";
}
}
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File: example.py
=============================
#! /usr/bin/env python
class NewClass:
def __init__():
"""This method was created using the def keyword. Uh-oh!"""
print "Hello, World!"
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** Affects: exuberant-ctags (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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ctags Parses Comments/Strings
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373169
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