From: Huw Collingbourne <huw@...>
Date: 2007-04-14T18:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: What is your favourite IDE? Eclipse DLTK!

Can you clarify what you mean by semantic highlighting? I'd be interested to 
see a concrete example of Ruby code to show how this might be useful.

As for the ideal that Ruby code should be short and sweet. I am very much of 
that opinion too. In fact, however, if you look through many of the widely 
used libraries used with Ruby you'll find that this ideal is rarely 
achieved. Single methods taking tens or hundreds of lines of code are 
commonplace. Contrast the Smalltalk class library (average method length 7 
lines).

We are working on some ideas which should assist Ruby programmers to 
structure their code into smaller blocks at the moment. Semantic 
highlighting has not, thusfar, been an idea we've considered. But if it 
seems useful, please help me to understand why ;-)

best wishes
Huw Collingbourne

http://www.sapphiresteel.com
Ruby Programming In Visual Studio 2005