From: "Rob ." <rob.02004@...>
Date: 2005-03-22T00:14:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, brother of VB?

Dave Burt <dave@burt.id.au> wrote:
> True, but if you declare Variants you don't get context-menus
> full of applicable properties and methods in the IDE's code
> editor. I often end up declaring a fake variable just to get that
> list, then deleting it after writing the line of code. Anyone?
>
> Dim x as RecordSet
> x.<look through list, pick the method,
>      check the params it needs...>

I'm hoping to implement this style of code completion in a Ruby Editor
Plugin I'm developing for jEdit:

    animal = Duck.new
    animal.<look though list, pick the method,
                  check the params it needs>

Also I hope to allow you to do this:

    def animate(animal)
        animal.quack
        animal.<look through list, pick the method, ...>

I'll notify the list when the first release of the plugin is available.

Rob