It may be that this cannot be fully resolved until the REPL's internal sketch of function dependencies allows rapid reweaving when an intermediate function is modified. With that, pulling function-family specs and offering thematic looks could be very efficient.
On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 6:03:45 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > This is a real issue but I don't think that aping the syntax of a very > different paradigm is the right solution. > > On Wednesday, October 7, 2015, <jonatha...@alumni.epfl.ch <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I think the auto-completion is a bit of an issue, it makes Julia >> functions not easily discoverable. In other language when you have a string >> you can just type dot and tab and see all the methods that you can apply to >> your string, so you almost never need to go to the doc. >> >> Something similar should be possible to implement in Julia with >> methodswith but I'm not sure any IDE support that yet. methodswith might >> also be too slow for that purpose. >> >
