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List:       haskell-cafe
Subject:    Re: [Haskell-cafe] language proposal: ad-hoc overloading
From:       Johannes Waldmann <waldmann () imn ! htwk-leipzig ! de>
Date:       2008-08-31 23:43:14
Message-ID: 48BB2C92.4020400 () imn ! htwk-leipzig ! de
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> As to the argument that a "sufficiently smart IDE" would insert the
> "M." for me, I think that is flawed.  First, there isn't a
> sufficiently smart IDE yet,=20

I do believe there will be.
What we do now is sort of putting down requirements ...

> and second, it'd be better for the
> type-aware IDE to tell me the types of things when I (for example)
> mouse over them, instead of helping me type longer things.

That's been said before: an IDE might help in writing/changing code,
but code should be readable without tool support.

J.W.



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