Re: SchemeScript and code completion

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Dominique Boucher wrote:
> Margus,
>
> > Since I write lot of Scheme code that interfaces with Java, the Java
> > method completion is quite useful. Actually, If possible, Schemeway
> > should do it even better, such as completing not only static method
> > names, but also normal method names as in
> > (let
> >      ((l :: <java.util.List> (make <java.util.LinkedList>)))
> >    (l:add 42))
> >
> > in this case, the l:add could be autocompleted.

That requires integrating the compiler (specifically
type checking) to be integrated with the IDE, which
is difficult.

> Is this really possible in Kawa? Things like
>
> (define-namespace String <java.lang.String>)
>
> ... (String:trim s) ...
>
> are legal, but not variables:methodName. Or am I mistaken here?

See
http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Namespaces.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Method-operations.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/PathExpressions.html
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