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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories RDi (Rational Developer for i)
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 18, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Enable RDi to support leading and/or trailing comments on statements.

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

RDi hovering reveals comments when they "lead" a line of code. This works great.

Some developers code "trailing" comments. Could RDi employ a preference to control the scope of comments included in a hover window?


Use Case:

Example. Here is a dcl-pi parameter named MissedEventsDate coded 3 ways. Screen snippets from RDi is attached.

>> RDi shows all these leading comments as expected:
//specific date or
//'9999-12-31' = use most recent date of detection
//'0001-01-01' = use most recent date of detection
MissedEventsDate date const;


>> RDi shows the trailing comment appearing after the statement. The succeeding two are not shown.
MissedEventsDate date const; //specific date or
//'9999-12-31' = use most recent date of detection
//'0001-01-01' = use most recent date of detection


>> RDi shows none of these trailing comments.
MissedEventsDate date const;
//specific date or
//'9999-12-31' = use most recent date of detection
//'0001-01-01' = use most recent date of detection


Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 29, 2021

    Although the theme of this request is consistent with our business strategy, it is not committed to the release that is currently under development.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 18, 2021

    Attachment (Use case): Snippet from dcl-pi parm showing hover behavior for leading & trailing comments.

    RFE Request for...
    RFE Request for RDi - Trailing Comments.png

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