Re: Why code completion and early error checking are needed

From: Petec (x_at_x.x)
Date: 06/06/04 

Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 01:05:54 GMT

Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> Petec wrote:
>
>> Steven T. Hatton wrote:
>>> Phlip wrote:
>>>
>>>> Steven T. Hatton wrote:
>
>>> But, I'm not just talking about command and control code, or
>>> whatever you want to call GUI code this week.
>>
>> Please, stop trying to turn C++ into Java. There's a reason I use C++
>> instead of Java, because I absolutely hate the Java way of doing
>> things. If C++ loses its preprocessor, etc in C++ 20xx, I'm sticking
>> with the last real C++.
>
> Why did Stroustrup suggest that the preprocesor should be replaced?

I don't know, but I disagree with him.

>
>>> I'm not merely wishing C++ were different, I'm actually trying to
>>> find a way to support the functionality I've been describing in an
>>> IDE currently under development.
>>
>> The language is not the IDE. It's perfectly possible to do what you
>> wish in an IDE for C++ in its current state. Again, I don't know why
>> you insist on ignoring VC++, but it demonstrates quite nicely that
>> what you want is possible.
>
> I'm not sure it really does provide what I've described. I gave you
> a list of questions asking if it provided the features described
> therein, and you did not address the questions.

It is up to the IDE, not the language, to do the things you described. VC++
does /some/ of them, proving that such things are possible. I suspect, but
have not tried, that VS.NET add-ins could fill in most of the others.

- Pete

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