Description Tom Mutdosch 2002-10-11 14:53:36 EDT

There should be smarter code assist when specifying parameters to methods:

Say I have a method:
void foo( String str );

And in some other code, I type
String bar = "BAR";
foo( b<CODE-ASSIST>

I would expect to see the most likely matched local variable 'bar' offered
first, perhaps followed by any possible matching global field variable. 
Currently, I see classes listed first such as BackAction and
BackingStoreException.  While I suppose it is possible to reference a static
class method (something like BarClass.getInstance().getString()), I think that
is less probable and would expect the classes to be listed farther down the list.

This is just something that I think would make code assist so much more
efficient and powerful, as many things could be specified with just the first
letter and then you hit code assist; if it has this type of intelligent sorting,
most of the matches will be the first one there.