@neilcsmith you have taken my words out of context so giving them a different meaning and then contradict them. Wow
I said the pre-processor hid the OO syntax for newbies, I call that simplification! The decision to use color as an alias for int was again aimed at early sketchers / graphic designers, personally I think it was a huge error of judgement. Fancy having a data type with the same name as a method, its just wrong.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the pre-processor the problem is, it takes valid Processing code (according to API) and converting it to invalid Java code, and I would like it fixed.