Thread: Visual C++ intellisense

And if a struct is defined locally in a function, do you really need the IDE to tell you the names of members?

Steady on guys, I'm just exploring the language!

Actually I noticed this in the course of going through one of the many exercises at the end of each chapter of Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in C++." He has you doing all sorts of things...define this class here, define this struct there, create an instance of this class in this function....see what the compiler tells you....define this globally instead and see what the compiler tells you now....

Etc.

And in the process I noticed that Intellisense doesn't work when you define a type in a function and since I'm a beginner with a naturally curious outlook, I wondered whether there was some reasoning behind this or whether it was just a bug. As it happens I've since come across a bug report for this very issue on the Microsoft site. It was reported in 2006 and the response was that they don't have the time or resources to fix it.

Originally Posted by Sharke

Steady on guys, I'm just exploring the language!

You're not having a problem with the language, but with an IDE. Intellisense has nothing to do with the C++ language.

Originally Posted by medievalelks

You're not having a problem with the language, but with an IDE. Intellisense has nothing to do with the C++ language.

Not very perceptive are you? When I pointed out that I was exploring the language it was in response to the replies which questioned why I was defining a type to be local to a function.

Originally Posted by Sharke

Not very perceptive are you? When I pointed out that I was exploring the language it was in response to the replies which questioned why I was defining a type to be local to a function.

My question was about why you needed Intellisense for this. You probably missed it, though, in your rush to point out my lack of perception.

Originally Posted by medievalelks

My question was about why you needed Intellisense for this. You probably missed it, though, in your rush to point out my lack of perception.

There it goes again! I said nothing to even insinuate that I was using Intellisense to explore the language. I made it very clear that I was curious about something I had discovered about Intellisense in the course of exploring the language.

Cripes, I'd hate to have to debug one of YOUR programs