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> Isn't Intellisense predictive typing? No. Intellisense tells you a list of options based on type inspection and then optionally autocompletes from the set of
by ebg13 8y ago
> Isn't Intellisense predictive typing?
No. Intellisense tells you a list of options based on type inspection and then optionally autocompletes from the set of options. It just says that if you type A and then a dot, according to the grammar of the language, you then must be about to type a member of A. But it's not predictive, because you literally just told the system that you're about to type a member of A by typing A and then a dot.
- melling 8y agoDon't you also get predictive variable and function names? Types? Control structures? enumerations? The space is much more limited so you should never need to type more than a few characters once you've written something once.
- ebg13 8y ago> Don't you also get predictive variable and function names? Types? Control structures? enumerations? Nothing* in intellisense is predictive in any meaningful sense. It just displays the entire set of options constrained by one or more of [the grammar, structured object inspection, and words seen in the document]. * There is one thing, actually. Intellisense can optionally boost the priority of a suggestion based on proximity to other instances. I would classify that as prediction.