> IntelliJ can, Eclipse has it on the roadmap. Netbeans... I just don't know
Excellent. I keep meaning to set the IDEA plugin up again.
>> It would matter if you made YourType.*(Int) fire the missiles instead
>> of multiply. Think that's unreasonable? Consider List("hello",
>> "world") map (_ + 2)
>
> That would return `List("hello2", "world2")`, it's valid code
But it's code that you need to know the type of _ to understand.
> What do you mean by the `YourType.*(Int)` notation? It's not valid syntax
> in either Java or Scala.
A method named * on the type YourType that takes an Int as a parameter.
> If it's possible to show the "closure" in a folded form, and still know
> everything about it that you need to, then why not just have the folded form
> as default language syntax?
You won't find me arguing against adding closures to Java!
> I'm also trying to get up to speed with emacs (a third set of bindings!) now
> I've appreciated that Scala doesn't need an IDE so much.
My experience is that well-written projects, in Scala or Java, don't
really require an IDE. The majority of code I've seen does not fit
into that category. It's less of a problem for Scala because grunts*
don't really use it.
* I don't mean to be derogatory here, but I don't have a good word for
a programmer who doesn't program or learn anything about programming
outside working hours.
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