On 10 July 2018 at 18:44, Ralf Hemmecke <r...@hemmecke.org> wrote: > On 07/10/2018 06:35 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > Just a comment: current Spad compiler essentially imports every > > domain that is sees: types of function arguments, type of value, > > etc. This is creasy, because set of visible functions depends > > on exact computation path taken in the compiler -- slight change > > to compiler code and suddenly something does not compile > > because needed domain is not longer visible. > > Isn't it also the case that suddenly something doesn't compile anymore > only because there is a new domain (automatically imported) that exports > the similar functionality so that now a function that does not > explicitly state from which package/domain it should be called. > > What I definitely don't want is that a .spad file cannot be compiled > anymore only because someone added another .spad file. > > For that reason, I'm very much in favour of giving the programmer full > control of what is imported and what is not visible. > > As far as I remember, if I write > > x: T := foo(...) > > then T will be imported. > > Giving explicit types is not necessarily a bad thing. The names of > variables are not always so telling that code becomes easy to read. > > Peter once suggested to let an IDE show the type of a variable in a > pop-up bubble when hovering with the cursor over that variable. That > would be great. But I definitely don't want to just hide the type. > > Just my 2 cents. > > For what it's worth I have a variant of this working in aldor - showing docs in place of types. If the spad compiler generated a marked up parse tree it might be doable there as well.
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