code completion help...

[Werner Modenbach]

On Samstag, 17. Februar 2001 15:35, Dimitri van Heesch wrote / Am Samstag, 
17. Februar 2001 15:35 schrieb Dimitri van Heesch:
>
> I don't think M$'s DevStudio uses more info than this for code completion.
> But then that certainly isn't perfect either.
>
> > (Consider a user typing something like
> > a(function1(), function2(1))->m and waiting for the code completion with
> > two visible definitions of method "a" with different sets of parameters
> > and possibly multiple definitions of the functions used as parameters as
> > well.) Also don't forget type conversion necessary for resolving
> > ambiguities between multiple definitions, template classes / functions,
> > inheritance...
>
> You could have added partial template specialization to make it even more
> difficult ;-)
>
> For this you'd really need a real compiler and also
> the time it takes to compile, which is probably not what you want for
> something that should be done in real time.
>

Hi Dimitri,

I follow up the discussion about code completion for a while now. I really 
agree the job is quite complicate to be done in real time.

But there is another aspect I want to throw into discussion.
In my opinion everybody talks about the difficult cases here but this is not 
the majority of the cases. For me it would be a great help if code completion 
would at least cover the simple cases. If it's not a simple case: OK, there 
might be no completion, but nothing worse than now. So it there is a way to 
do an 80% code completion for a first throw I would be glad :-))

- Werner -


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