Lothar Scholz wrote: >On Sun, 19 May 2002 23:50:28 GMT, Han Holl <han / pobox.com> wrote: > > > >>confusing. I don't like IDE's very much as a rule, the only one I use is >>JBuilder, and then only for the wonderful completion feature: you type >>System. and it pops up a list with all legal values. >>If such a feature is planned for RubyEclipse, I can swallow some of the >> >> > >Sorry but this will never be possible with scripting languages. > > > I understand that it will never quite equal the Java possibilities, and it would probably take a lot of analyzing, but something like: a = Hash.new a. would offer an opportunity for a drop down menu. But in a lot of cases the IDE would indeed need extra help. Han