Golang-like member functions

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@peteole

but your IDE (or julia itself) has more information for suggesting methods to you which can be called on an object: it knows you want to do something with exactly that object. For instance if I type “myServer.” and then press strg+space, any OOP-language-IDE will suggest the methods of a server. If I have a server object in julia and want to do something with it, I have to guess the name of the method using it and see if it really exists. Maybe I even get an error because the method looks like it could accept the “myServer” object, but does not.

But where the additional information comes from? It’s equivalent to ?(myServer, arts)[tab] completion under Julia semantics. Because myServer.method(args) would be no different from method(myServer, args), it’s a purely syntax changes and in both cases IDE knows you want to do something with exactly that object.