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irreversible
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 Posted - Feb 02 2013 : 12:14:25 AM
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It'd be nice if VAX silently auto-suggested default argument values specified in function declarations.
Let's take a somewhat radical case, although this really does apply to any argument list. Consider calling a function with four default arguments of which you need to customize only one:
void foo(int a, ENUM_A ThisIsEnumA = ENUM_A_someval, ENUM_B ThisIsEnumB = ENUM_B_someval, ENUM_C ThisIsEnumC = ENUM_C_someval, ENUM_D ThisIsEnumD = ENUM_D_someval);
Only wanting to specify ThisIsEnumD currently requires either typing in values of A, B and C or going through (usually rather) lengthy lists of enum values. VAX can't make an ingeniously educated guess in this case anyway (it seems to auto-suggest values with a matching type from nearby scopes), so it'd be nice it if automagically defaulted to ENUM_A_someval, ENUM_B_someval, ENUM_C_someval and ENUM_D_someval. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Feb 04 2013 : 8:35:37 PM
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Is this a common situation? Or do you only want to call with the customised default values occasionally?
Adding a refactoring command to call with default arguments, leaving you to then go back and customise one of the arguments seems like a good solution here. Not quite so automatic, but this won't get in the way when you are calling the function "normally" and not passing all of the arguments.
I have put in a feature request for this new refactoring command, to see what our developers make of it:
case=72189
If a command like this was added you would be able to bind it to a keyboard shortcut, making it quick and easy to trigger when required. |
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Auto-suggest default arguments first
