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On May 4, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > I think Guillaume ideas for editor templates and macros would be a > Racket analogue to this idea. Partially implemented in DivaScheme > > http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/plt/software/divascheme/ > > Jay > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Matthias Felleisen > <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >> >> The other day when Simon PJ lectured here in Olin's compiler class (thanks, >> volcano), he mentioned that he was jealous of one thing in OO PLs: auto >> completion. You write down "anObject." and you immediately get all possible >> methods that you can apply here and you continue to guess your way thru >> program construction. (My words as you can tell if you know Simon.) >> >> Of course this isn't about FP vs OOP. It's about two different points: >> >> 1. syntax: OOP guys write down the first argument first (this) and then the >> method call and that is the way syntax works. I see nothing wrong with >> writing down >> >> aList. >> >> getting 2 possible completions in BSL/2: >> >> -- length >> -- reverse >> >> choosing one, say length >> >> and having the editor insert it like that: >> >> (length aList) >> >> If I allow the editor to manipulate my writings, why not be a tad more >> radical than add a word at the current position. >> >> >> 2. Types. You need some restriction on the space in which you search and you >> might as well use types. So perhaps in Typed Scheme we should be able to >> change the IDE so it behaves like the above. >> >> Ah, but we also have history against us. Who would have thought that (lambda >> (x) (make-posn 0 x)) is the first argument for mapping over a list of >> numbers? >> >> Is it really hopeless for us? -- Matthias >> >> >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev >> > > > > -- > Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> > Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University > http://teammccarthy.org/jay > > "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
