On 2008 Jul 13, at 9:36, Max Bolingbroke wrote:
2008/7/13 Claus Reinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Then again, we don't do fuzzy matching, only completion
of partial identifiers and suggesting possible qualified
names and imports for unqualified ones.
Agreed: doing fuzzy matching on >every< available identifier from all
packages would truly suck. I would propose just looking for exact
matches in non-imported modules for identifiers that are not in scope.
I would fuzzy match on unqualified names in the current module (or
directory), qualified names in the module in question, and if that
doesn't exist (== have a .hi) then try fuzzy-matching the module
name. If the unqualified fuzzy match doesn't work, look for exact
matches in non-imported modules.
Well, noone has actually said they think fuzzy matching would be
useful yet, so I suspect this patch is dead on the vine :). I've filed
Huh? Edit distance is a good way to handle typoes --- and, while some
people have asserted that "we don't need that because I can see it
already", most people *don't* see it right away. (I do tend to spot
typoes quickly --- in prose. It's nowhere near as accurate for code,
and even when it does work it isn't exact: I'll have a "something's
wrong" about some spot in the code and still take an hour to spot the
typo.) I'm also *really* good at typoes, which you won't see in email
but will see regularly in #haskell. :)
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