From: Shajith <demerzel@...>
Date: 2005-03-30T21:19:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Open letter to anyone developing a Ruby IDE

Hi!

> 
>         a = somemethod(1, 2, 3)
>         a.<TAB> # what methods are available? We have an approximation of
>                 # the classes/methods in the system, but no idea what
>                 # `a' corresponds to.
>                 #
>                 # You could use "Foo.new is an 'atomic' type constraint,
>                 # everything else bubbles up from these kind of constraints",
>                 # but how reliable would that be?
> 

What about the IDE doing eval("a.methods")? Won't that cover the
general <expr>.<TAB> case?

Shajith