+ 1 does anybody want to implement this hovering excellent idea.
On Jan 9, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Johan Brichau wrote: > And yes, the rule of thumb is that one reads the comments (or implementation) > of a method to understand it, rather than (only) trying to guess it's > semantics from its selector. > We all got used to coding like that in Smalltalk. However, it's _just_ a rule > of thumb that comments on top of the method body should document the method. > Not all methods do it, and people coming from different languages and > development environments are not immediately comfortable because they 'need > to look at the implementation of an API to understand it'. So, I think there > is something we can learn from other development environments: in XCode, for > example, you can request the documentation of a method in a small 'hover > window' by a <ctrl>+<click> on the method name. I wonder if such a system in > Smalltalk development environment would make documenting a method more > important, and thus, force people to write and use it more....
