[swift-evolution] Proposal SE-0009 Reconsideration

L. Mihalkovic laurent.mihalkovic at gmail.com
Mon May 23 12:35:15 CDT 2016



> On May 23, 2016, at 7:26 PM, David Sweeris <davesweeris at mac.com> wrote:
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> On May 23, 2016, at 11:24, Krystof Vasa via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> The problem can also be easily mitigated by having the IDE use a different color to display a variable based on where it was defined (eclipse come to mind as an example). This is something the brain naturally notices without paying any conscious attention.
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>> Tell that to the colorblind :)
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> Dunno about other IDEs, but Xcode's syntax highlighting can change the size, typeface (bold, italic, etc), and even the font. You can make instance variables show up as 24pt comic sans, if you want. You can’t do polkadot, though… apparently that’s going too far.
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Issue is SourceKit may not have the scope of an identifier (was not there last time I looked), just the fact that it was an identifier (i looked a while ago mind you)


> - Dave Sweeris


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