From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-03-30T17:16:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Open letter to anyone developing a Ruby IDE

Hello Eric,

EH> On 29 Mar 2005, at 23:04, Nospam wrote:

>> Eric Hodel wrote:
>>> http://www.chadfowler.com/index.cgi/Computing/Programming/Ruby/ 
>>> TypeWatching.rdoc,v
>>
>> It would be nice to see this somehow integrated in IDE's, but this 
>> still means the code needs to be executed somehow before the typehints
>> are available, not?

EH>  From Chad's description, I believe that is correct.

EH> ... unit tests work great for this ...

But unit tests sometimes use other objects (Mock classes) then the
"normal" classes. So the results can be misinterpreted.

But even with unit tests the application under development will
normally run a thousand times during a development week.


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