Haxe-mode broken in Emacs 24.4

Question

Installing Emacs 24.4 broke my haxe mode. The mode for the HaXe language doesn't seem to be maintained any more so I'm trying to fix it myself.

Firstly, I had a cl-macroexpand-all problem which forced me to add

(require 'cl)

before loading the mode.

Secondly, and that's where things get tricky, the indenting of typeful function declarations is broken (or at least that's where I think the problem is originated):

class Test {

    public function notFailingAfterThis() {

    }

    public function butFailingAfterThis(): Int {

    }

                                           public function failingHere(): Void {

                                           }

                                                                          public function hereEvenMore() {

                                                                          }
        public function endOfTheFailure() {

    }

}

My knowledge of Emacs lisp is too limited to find the error (if you want to test this yourself, you can download haxe mode's source and create this Test.hx file).

HaXe allows typeless and typeful declarations, with a syntax similar to ActionScript.

var myVar: MyVarType;
function myFunction(): MyFunctionReturnType {}
var myUntypedVar;
function myUntypedFunction() {}

Any ideas how to fix this, before I'm forced to make the whole plugin myself? It seems to be a feature that put the carret at the right indenting after a carriage return, which it didn't do before I updated emacs.

Answer 1

Okay so I had to update one of the libraries that my old version of emacs was using so I took this week-end as an opportunity to make my own major mode for HaXe.

I based it on fundamental mode, which may be controversial because CC-mode might make more sense, but we'll avoid future problems with CC-mode evolution — as it was the case here — when doing so.

So in case it helps anybody, here's a public git (I've released it on GPL v3):

https://github.com/pierre-arlaud/funda-haxe-mode

This mode is pretty basic but it somehow supports syntax highlighting and indentation.

I have found a few minor bugs or improvements to make already, but at this point I believe it's already better than using a javascript mode.