[GitHub] [netbeans] neilcsmith-net commented on pull request #5013: Make more hints for java available

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neilcsmith-net commented on PR #5013:
URL: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/5013#issuecomment-1356770439

   > showing the type for `var` at the end of the line is a nice trick, but I am not sure if it will scale. Specifically, if we try to add the same feature for implicitly type lambda parameters, it will be hard to put the types at the end of the line. Ultimately, `var` will be the an outlier in how other similar things will be handled. (And, overall, we may need to add more stuff at the end of lines - debugging info comes to mind.)
   
   @jlahoda that depends a little whether you consider if it's conceptually the `var` type that should be hinted, or the return type of methods where it's chained or not assigned to the same explicit type. eg. could consider hinting where assignment is to a super type as well as `var`?
   
   Personally I'm not sure completely inline hints scale anyway.  Some users get confused by non-editable text appearing in amongst their text, and they affect formatting of code (eg. by default we show a right margin guide, which becomes less useful the more hints there are).  Whereas there's at least more space at line ends to show information in a potentially less confusing way?  Or we could consider vertical space instead?
   
   I have less concerns where hints are not enabled by default though.
   


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