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An IDE should just show the pronounceable name of that symbolic alias on hover. Symbols are fine as long as they're alias names for fully written out names. I
by still_grokking 8y ago
An IDE should just show the pronounceable name of that symbolic alias on hover.
Symbols are fine as long as they're alias names for fully written out names.
I think Scala will support such an IDE feature with an @alias annotation in the future. (I saw that idea on a slide in a talk of M. Odersky some time ago but actually don't know the current status).
- posterboy 8y agoSearch features for language documentation should recognize special characters as such. For asterisk that gets very ambiguous though, unless it uses regex or something else, standardly.