Sean, If you ever decide to get into it, there is a Dynamic Language Toolkit (DLTK) which I've been looking into for a while now for help in building IDEs for dynamic languages on Eclipse.
http://www.eclipse.org/dltk/ The language is about as sparse as they come, but they are very helpful on the mailing list. Mark On Jan 8, 2008 7:17 AM, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 11:56 AM, Jerry Guido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of the features I absolutely love about Aptana and other Eclipse > > distros is having the methods and arguments of included libraries and > > classes available with Intellisense/code completion. If the methods and > > arguments of CFC's and objects were made available it would be a God > > send. > > That would be impossible in general since CF is a dynamic language and > several important frameworks build objects on the fly. And then > there's duck typing and onMissingMethod() which both undermine the > ability to deduce available methods. That said, I agree that where it > is feasible to do so, it would be great if CFEclipse (or whatever) > could figure it out. > > If I had bandwidth - or it was my full-time, well-paid job - I would > enjoy building that sort of semantic assistance into an Eclipse-based > editor for CF since I used to build compilers and interpreters for a > number of languages. It's a suitably hard problem to solve that it > would be a lot of fun :) > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:296061 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
