On 4/20/2012 10:02, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 20/04/2012 02:41 AM, Darren New wrote:
>> Plus, the IDE for Smalltalk doesn't really deal too much with the fact
>> that it's OO. It didn't do any of the sorts of completion you're talking
>> about.
>
> Well, to be fair, since Smalltalk isn't statically typed, you'd be
> hard-pressed to figure out what messages are applicable to a given variable.
> ;-)

You'd be surprised. People write code that looks at javascript, for example, 
and comes up with something like 70% of the variables being statically typed 
in ways that it's even easy to tell.  Even when you *could* figure it out, 
indeed even when the variable had a value already, you didn't get the sorts 
of completion you're talking about.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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