Should function declarations be highlighted in Java?

[IceMan81]

Thinking out loud if its useful to have function declarations highlighted in a different color like the Intellij Darcula scheme. I find them useful at times.

Looking at this screenshot from the solarized page, it looks like the default solarized scheme also applies the idea to Ruby and the intellij color scheme does apply it for Python, so why not for Java?

[aik099]

On provided screenshot all files are in Ruby. Can you please attach screenshot from Java and indicate what word should have what color?

[jkaving]

On the official Solarized page the Java example does not have highlighted method declarations.
I don't know whether there is a reason for this difference between the languages.

[IceMan81]

That's my thought as well, why the Java color scheme does not have method declarations highlighted. Maybe there were Java editors did not provide the option for it, though that seems unlikely.
There does not seem to be a good reason to not have it hightlighted. Some of the eclipse Solarized color schemes I came across are setting it the color in the Ruby screenshot above.

But that color has already been used for Doc Comment tag value.

[IceMan81]

Maybe not the best idea, but could just make them bold. I'm trying that out now on my work instance. I feel highlighting the method declaration helps, not sure if bold is the way to go.

[IceMan81]

I've now settled on just underscore on the function name using base1 (light) or base01 (dark). I tried a bunch of different combinations and I liked this the best.