On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 05:46:56 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 03:47:31 +0000
Cliff via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
This is a great feature where we lack a really solid IDE
experience (which would have intellisense and auto-completion
that could be accurate and prevent such errors from occurring
in the first place.) Otherwise it would probably be redundant.
i'm not using IDEs for more than a decade (heh, i'm using
mcedit to
write code). yet this feature drives me mad: it trashes my
terminal
with useless garbage output. it was *never* in help, there were
no
moment when i looked at suggested identifier and thinked: "aha,
THAT is
the bug!" but virtually each time i see usggestion i'm
thinking: "oh,
well, i know. 'cmon, why don't you just shut up?!"
it's like colorizing the output, yet colorizing can be turned
off, and
suggestions can't.
That you even make the bug at all which triggers the error is an
indication the developer workflow you use is fundamentally
flawed. This is something which should be caught much earlier -
when you are at the point the typo was made - not after you have
committed a change to disk and presented it to the compiler,
where your train of thought may be significantly different.
I'd much rather energy be directed at the prevention of mistakes,
not the suppression of help in fixing them - if I had to choose.
But I wouldn't object to having a switch to turn off the help if
it bothers you that much. Seems like a very small thing to add.
