sle2016/paper12

SLE 2016 paper:
Principled Syntactic Code Completion using Placeholders

Luís Eduardo de Souza Amorim, Sebastian Erdweg, Guido Wachsmuth, Eelco Visser

• DOI: 10.1145/2997364.2997374
• T4A: Workbenches
  • It proposes IDE/editor support for principled syntactic code completion as a language tool feature.
• T5H: Usability
  • The aim is to improve developer efficiency and interaction quality during editing (usability).
• T1A: Design
  • It discusses language-aware completion that respects the language’s syntactic design constraints.

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