From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-05-27T02:23:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Intellisense and the psychology of typing

andrew.queisser@hp.com wrote:
> Yesterday I typed in some C++ code that called a function with two
> ints. Intellisense (auto-complete) helpfully told me that the first
> formal parameter was called "frontLight" and the second "ringLight". It
> occurred to me that I'm getting some semantic help here on top of the
> obvious type safety. It seems to me that the existance of this kind of
> support is tied to the static typing nature of  C++.

I'm all for intelligent help. But I just wanted to point out that this 
particular example has nothing to do with static typing. "frontLight" 
and "ringLight" were parameter names. Any language that has named 
parameters could do this regardless of whether or not those parameters 
were typed.

Curt