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steve donovan wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote:You can't know the type of the receiver in Python either, so if Python editors can do it, then Lua editors ought to be able to do so as well.I'd be curious to know what heuristics they're using, because it is not possible in theory to do this precisely without full access to run-time information. Unless (of course) we are in a debugger session - then the type is known and can be introspected.
The LuaEclipse environment is tightly coupled with the LuaJava implementation that allows us to use both a live runtime as well as static parsing of the lua sources to get an idea of what completions might be available. Far from 100% accurate, but any completion is better than no completion as long as it doesn't get in your way =;-) Verion 2.0 should have an even better set of heuristics and allow you to scope the context of your included source so that you can get completion for external environments that might be doing the 'require'ing for you. Thomas -- Thomas Fletcher Crank Software Inc. www.cranksoftware.com