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by Huw Collingbourne.
Original Post: Ruby Variable Completion – The Challenges of Code Analysis
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One of the beta testers of the Developer Edition of Ruby In Steel (‘Red Fire') suggested recently that we should think of doing automatic variable completion: that is, if you have three variables in scope called, say, dogOne, dogTwo and dogmaticTheoriesAndPrinciples you should be able to type a letter or two – say do - and pick the appropriate variable from a drop-down list. I have to be honest. The plain truth of the matter is that we've added so many IntelliSense (...)