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The highlighting isn't an issue, I think most editors cheat in the same way. As C++ is a super-set of C it shouldn't be a problem, at least not except for a few edge cases which I wouldn't worry about IMHO.

My comment was more that the C example code is actually C++.

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Except C isn't a subset of C++. There are many valid C keywords that aren't valid in C++, like restrict and _Noreturn.

Well MSVC only just supports C99 so asking for C11 keywords is unlikely to happen.

I had a quick look at their C++ word list [0] and it looks like _Imaginary and _Complex and _Bool are the only missing C99 keywords. Feel free to make a PR if you want them added :)

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-languages/blob/master/sr...

restrict is C99. Many C++ compilers accept __restrict__ or some other form of it to mean the same, but restrict doesn't exist in the C++ standard, so the GP is correct.

Good point, it gets tough remembering all the little differences between the two.

Fixed: https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor/pull/12

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