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But how does memorizing all 33 methods of your AbstractBeanFactoryProviderImpl enrich anything? Learning to play an instrument is enriching because you start t

But how does memorizing all 33 methods of your AbstractBeanFactoryProviderImpl enrich anything? Learning to play an instrument is enriching because you start to understand the logic/inner workings behind the music you listen to. You need the same skill for programming, sure, but I don't see how autocomplete would replace that.

marginalia_nu 5y ago
> But how does memorizing all 33 methods of your AbstractBeanFactoryProviderImpl enrich anything? Auto-completion is no doubt a large part of what's enabled your AbstractBeanFactoryProviderImpl to get those 33 methods in the first place. Which is a big part of my point, autocompletion shapes the way you think about code, shapes how you write code. There are also a lot of examples of functions that, by name alone, do not do what they seem to do. That shouldn't be, you might say. But even in the face of that objection, they do exist. It would be very easy to jump to the conclusion that for example "Boolean Boolean.getBoolean(String)" parsed the string and returned its boolean equivalent.
- elevader 5y ago
  > Auto-completion is no doubt a large part of what's enabled your AbstractBeanFactoryProviderImpl to get those 33 methods in the first place. Which is a big part of my point, autocompletion shapes the way you think about code, shapes how you write code. Sure, but that doesn't necessarily make it better or worse. People have written horrible code without auto completion, just like they have written horrible code with auto completion. I'm not convinced that you just magically get better at thinking by making your life harder and typing more for no real reason. > There are also a lot of examples of functions that, by name alone, do not do what they seem to do. That shouldn't be, you might say. But even in the face of that objection, they do exist. It would be very easy to jump to the conclusion that for example "Boolean Boolean.getBoolean(String)" parsed the string and returned its boolean equivalent. And not having auto complete doesn't help with that at all. Auto complete MIGHT also include commentary for the function and explain what it does (if that commentary exists in the first place) and at least help with the issue.

marginalia_nu 5y ago

> But how does memorizing all 33 methods of your AbstractBeanFactoryProviderImpl enrich anything? Auto-completion is no doubt a large part of what's enabled your AbstractBeanFactoryProviderImpl to get those 33 methods in the first place. Which is a big part of my point, autocompletion shapes the way you think about code, shapes how you write code. There are also a lot of examples of functions that, by name alone, do not do what they seem to do. That shouldn't be, you might say. But even in the face of that objection, they do exist. It would be very easy to jump to the conclusion that for example "Boolean Boolean.getBoolean(String)" parsed the string and returned its boolean equivalent.

elevader 5y ago
> Auto-completion is no doubt a large part of what's enabled your AbstractBeanFactoryProviderImpl to get those 33 methods in the first place. Which is a big part of my point, autocompletion shapes the way you think about code, shapes how you write code. Sure, but that doesn't necessarily make it better or worse. People have written horrible code without auto completion, just like they have written horrible code with auto completion. I'm not convinced that you just magically get better at thinking by making your life harder and typing more for no real reason. > There are also a lot of examples of functions that, by name alone, do not do what they seem to do. That shouldn't be, you might say. But even in the face of that objection, they do exist. It would be very easy to jump to the conclusion that for example "Boolean Boolean.getBoolean(String)" parsed the string and returned its boolean equivalent. And not having auto complete doesn't help with that at all. Auto complete MIGHT also include commentary for the function and explain what it does (if that commentary exists in the first place) and at least help with the issue.