Add button "Show inferred semicolons", like Scala-IDE

[Lukas Eder]

Hello,

Like Scala, Xtend allows to omit "obvious" semicolons. Of course, this can lead to ambiguity in some corner cases. Scala-IDE has added a button to show/hide inferred semicolons, much like Eclipse's button to show/hide whitespace:

In the attached image, the first and third import statements omit the semi-colon, whereas the second one explicitly has a semi-colon. I think, such a button would be useful for Xtend as well...

Cheers

Lukas

[Sven Efftinge]

You could file a feature request in bugzilla (you'll find the link on the website).

Please also provide us with a typical scenario where such a feature helps you.

Thanks,

Sven

[Lukas Eder]

OK, will do.

Thanks,

Lukas

[Lukas Eder]

As a matter of fact, I just realised that such a feature is much more useful with Scala than with Xtend right now, as Scala allows for omitting much more than just semi-colons. I guess Scala-IDE have added this feature to help decrypting statements where lots dots and parentheses are omitted as well...

Adding it to Xtend might just be purely cosmetic...