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Improvement Request on Highlighting Implicit Conversions
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From: "Rafael de F. Ferreira" <raf...@rafaelferreira.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:11:02 -0300
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Subject: Re: [scala-ide-user] Improvement Request on Highlighting Implicit Conversions
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On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen <je...@ingolfs.dk> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Rafael de F. Ferreira
> <raf...@rafaelferreira.net> wrote:
>> This discussion reminded me of a feature request I've been meaning to
>> make for a while. Highlighting implicits and showing inferred
>> semicolons is useful but perhaps already too cluttering, and I think
>> Scala tooling would benefit from more desugaring info. I'd love to see
>> a "Code Inspection" panel that mirrored a section of the currently
>> focused source code (perhaps visually similar to the JDT's Declaration
>> View) with toggles to show synthesized code such as "implicits
>> expansion", "inferred semicolons", "inferred member types",
>> "for-comprehension desugaring", "extractor desugaring", etc.
>>
>> It's possible to show all that information on the existing editor
>> given the appropriate highlights and tooltips, but having it all
>> available on a separate pane just a glance away would be a net win
>> IMO. What do you guys think?
>
> Sounds very nice! I also tend to think there's too much going on with
> the current highlights
>
> /Jeppe
Should I open a feature request on JIRA?
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Rafael de F. Ferreira.
http://www.rafaelferreira.net/