On Monday 28 February 2011 23:49:56 Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2011-02-28 22:38, Don wrote: > > But I still don't see the need for this feature. Aren't people using > > IDEs where the function signature (with parameter names) pops up when > > you're entering the function, and when you move the mouse over the > > function call? > > And if you really want to see them all the time, why not build that > > feature into the IDE? > > ("hit ctrl-f9 to show all parameter names, hit it again to hide them"). > > That's very true. I'm used to that with Descent. On the other hand, I > don't know how many editors that support this that also supports D.
Unfortunately, D is going to have to become fairly mature before we have much in the way of really good IDE support. There _are_ options out there, but for the most part, when programming in D, I expect that the average programmer is forgoing the majority of benefits that a good IDE provides. So, while IDEs may help a great deal with certain things in the long run, I wouldn't expect many people to think that an IDE feature was a decent solution at this point (regardless of what you're talking about), since they're probably not using an IDE with such a feature at this point. - Jonathan M Davis