Re: IDE

[Stephan Brunner <stephan brunner gmx de>]

Am Dienstag 26 September 2006 22:16 schrieb Sergei Steshenko:
> --- Stephan Brunner <stephan brunner gmx de> wrote:
> > Am Montag 25 September 2006 08:55 schrieb Ratcliffe, Jeffrey (Peters):
> > > Sorry for this being slightly off-topic, but:
> > >
> > > Are any of you guys using an IDE?
> > >
> > > For want of anything better, I am using nedit, which looks foul on
> > > Ubuntu Dapper, but is a miles better editor than gedit.
> >
> > On the editor-only-level, I use vim. You might want to try kate (if you
> > use KUbuntu...).
> >
> > > I tried out Eclipse + EPIC, but the editor was nowhere near as nice as
> > > nedit and I could only get Perl syntax highlighting if the file was
> > > .pl.
> >
> > I just installed Eclipse + EPIC myself these days (also Ubuntu Dapper).
> > So far, I like it somehow, mostly because of the Package Explorer and the
> > "Outline". It is definitly more efficient to select a specific subroutine
> > in the outline tree than browsing through bunches of files and pages of
> > code looking for it...
> > On the other hand, it is not the most responsive software I ever used:-)
> > And it's not as smart as I would like it to be.
> > Write, for example,
> >
> > my $foo = Foo->new;
> > $foo-> (you get a selection of the available methods here, which is
> > nice!).
> >
> > But write (as it happens more often this way):
> >
> > my $foo = shift;
>
> The above is typically one of the first subroutine statements, meaning
>
> my $foo = shift @_;
> .
> How can any IDE know how the subroutine will be called, i.e. what's
> going to be on @_ array ?

Oops, of course you're right. My thoughts were inspired by C++, where the IDE 
knows how a function is called and which variable is of what type. Should 
have thought more about it. 
Still, code-completion isn't worth a lot under these conditions - but it isn't 
EPIC's fault:-)

Regrads,
Stephan