Fully dynamic d by opDotExp overloading

[Leandro Lucarella]

Daniel Keep, el 18 de abril a las 19:08 me escribiste:
> > So I have created this, that I actually use in a large Graph class of mine that has many methods:
> > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/409000/
> > Such class can be used from the interactive shell too, to play with graphs in an interactive way, modify them, plot them, etc.
> > Often you may not remember the name of a method you need, or you may
> > mistype it. In such situation __getattr__ is being called. It collects
> > the class method names, removed the useless ones, and performs
> > a similarity search between the given wrong method name and the
> > strings in that list. Then returns the 4-5 most similar ones, each one
> > followed by their docstring, that shows the function signature and the
> > purpose of the method. So you can usually find the method you were
> > looking for, and use it. This is useful both when using such Graph
> > class from the command line and when you are writing code without an
> > IDE that helps you finding method names.  That Python code of mine
> > becomes doable in D too (using for example my very fast approximate
> > string distance. This is a case where you don't need the list of
> > changes, but just the distance number. So superdan can rest in peace).
> > 
> > Bye,
> > bearophile
> 
> There's an interesting idea...
> 
> Instead of "No member 'foo'", you could have "No member 'foo'; did you
> mean 'far' or 'fur'?"

Git[1] added that feature for Git commands recently and even when it's not
really *that* useful, is a nice feature =)

Maybe something like "candidates are: ..." following by each method and
file location (to empower IDEs) can be done.

I mean, the DMD frontend could do that, not opDot(Exp), of course ;)

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