Re: [Help-smalltalk] autocomplete in gst REPL

[Tim Menzies]

i do a lot of teaching with GST smalltalk and the auto-completion is a
cool tool for making beginners more comfortable with the environment.
So, unless there is some bad memory or runtime hit, I'd vote that:

Dictionary at<TAB>

returns  (at least)

at:
at:put:

Just my $0.02 worth

Regards,
Tim Menzies

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Paolo Bonzini<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 07/02/2009 08:34 PM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
>>
>> While I tried out Nico's sample code, I noticed that
>> the tab-auto-complete in gst's REPL is not as all-knowing
>> as it could be:
>>
>> st>  error sign<TAB>
>> signal:               signalOn:             signalWithArguments:
>> signalClass:          signalWith:           signed:
>>
>> although error signalingContext is defined in my gst.
>>
>> Bug or feature?
>
> Half-half.  The completion list is built from the symbol table, which
> includes both variables and methods.  Including all methods including unary
> methods would have meant having variables too in the completion list.  I can
> change it if people prefer so.
>
> Paolo
>
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