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Mapping language style to ancillary issues?It would be of interest to me to see a codification of the impact language style has on ancillary tools. For example, I want my IDE to show me wherever a given variable is used. You can try to do that with just textual searches, but if the language allows runtime aliasing then you are presumably going to have a more difficult time of statically generating the relevant information about variable use. Or, you are going to have to restrict the breadth of information generated. (IntelliJ actually does do something along these lines for Java, although I suspect it doesn't follow aliasing chains?) I'd guess that language styles are more-or-less amenable to particular such issue. I guess I see this as a way of guiding myself and others towards understanding another angle on why e.g. functional programming matters, or mutable state is evil, etc. By raould at 2007-03-26 22:48 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 5419 reads
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