On Monday, 2 September 2013 at 17:29:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/1/2013 8:28 PM, Manu wrote:
D probably appeals more to ex-C++ users (I'm not aware of any
sensis, but D's
main offering at least to me, is an evolution from C++). We
are used to being
able to gather a quick summary of a class at a glance.
D (or perhaps just me) makes extensive use of local functions.
If the outer
function is at the leftmost tab level, it's easy to recognise
if you're reading
the code from a local function or not. If the outer function
is already a few
tab levels deep, I frequently find myself becoming unsure of
what/where I'm
actually reading.
I don't know if this is an IDE feature or not, but I've often
thought of adding a command to my editor (MicroEmacs) to
collapse/expand function bodies. This would make it convenient
to navigate larger files - just collapse, move to the function
you want to examine, then expand. It would also mitigate the
issue you have. I theorize that VS doesn't have such a feature?
Maybe IDEs are solving the wrong problem? :-)
One that collapses out the comments would be great, too, as
I've found one downside of Ddoc is it can get hard to find the
code amongst the doc comments.
I'm pretty certain most IDE's do have code folding in some form
or other. I can't remember ever noticing it not being there in
anything I've used.
