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Re:Show HN: CodeMatch: IDE autocomplete on overdrive by moondistance on Friday August 19, 2011 @07:41PM (#2905317)
How does CodeMatch encourage "overlyDescriptiveNamesThatJustMakeTheCodeHarderToRead"? I don't think it does. Search results are not code snippets.

If you're suggesting that the tool isn't useful or to be encouraged (as you seem to suggest in earlier posts), I'm interested in better understanding your rationale.

As far as I can tell, you have only critiqued possible ways that CodeMatch could be used, not CodeMatch itself.

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Re:Show HN: CodeMatch: IDE autocomplete on overdrive by jrockway on Friday August 19, 2011 @08:34PM (#2905393)
You asked what I thought about completing method names and I told you what I thought. Searching in the IDE may be useful. GHCI has has this kind of thing (integration with hoogle/hayoo) for a while, but I've never found it that useful. Programming is more than just "pick the first result for a one word query".
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