On Mar 24, 2010, at 3:53 AM, Laurent PETIT wrote:
2010/3/24 Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net>:
The original version (. object method) still could have an interest
where IDEs could guess the method names to propose based on what they
could infer from the object arg.
With the (.methodName object) version, the IDE usually can make
methode name completions based on everything but the object source
code which has not been yet entered by the user, and this is less than
ideal :-(.
So some IDEs (like ccw) try hard doing completion based on the start
of the method name type by the user (and it is currently slow with ccw
because it searches for matches in all available classes in the
project's classpath), some base their search only on classes that are
imported in the current namespace (which is less than ideal given that
generally the objects are not referred to directly in the ns and thus
do not require an import statement for their class/interface).
Clojure IDEs that do completions (like MCLIDE, SLIME and ccw) could
benefit from having collections of method names and other Clojure
properties available for efficient access without loading the
associated code. Such as if jars included a compilation/database
built from a static analysis of the Clojure code.
Other information of interest includes cross references like the
callers of a function (see XREF for Common Lisp). The Swank server
used by SLIME and MCLIDE already provides an interface to support
such references and completions in these IDEs.
Some require the user to write an "intermediate" form of source
code, e.g.
by prefixing the method name with the class name to narrow the search,
e.g. type "String.le" to have code completion on "String.length", and
when you accept the code completion, it is transformed back into
.length in the editor ...
-- Terje Norderhaug
te...@in-progress.com
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