> On Jul 1, 2015, at 09:07 , Roland King <r...@rols.org> wrote:
> 
> Named parameters is good syntax, autocomplete, which needs to still get 
> better,

It needs to get SO MUCH BETTER.

• It still fails completely for me ALL the time, Xcode 6 or 7, there are times 
when it simply won't offer any completions at all
• It still offers completions that are not appropriate in the context, making 
the list too long to search through. This is particularly troublesome if you 
can't remember the first few characters.
• Worst thing: you can't type more past the first part of a function name. This 
is true for Obj-C and Swift. This is particularly bad when using delegates, 
since all delegates begin with the same prefix, the methods are only 
distinguished by parameter names. There's no way to type-select to reduce the 
length of a list of delegate names, and it can be quite hard to scan down the 
list to find the one that you really want, because there's no horizontal 
alignment of parameter names.

Despite having filed bugs for all of this multiple times over the years, it 
hasn't gotten noticeably better. I'm especially surprised that last point 
hasn't been addressed.

If instead, the (first part of) the function name carried the bulk of the name 
(rather than relying on parameter names), this would not be an issue. Moreover, 
you wouldn't be required to have an IDE that supports code completion (more of 
an issue with something like Swift being open-sourced and used in non-OS X 
environments).



-- 
Rick Mann
rm...@latencyzero.com



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