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Hi,

I really love the method call syntax (obj.meth(args) instead of meth(obj, args)).

But I have problems finding the right methods of a particular object in the index, therefore my question:

Is there an 'inverse' index with methods grouped by objects?

Example:

Original Index:


`$`:
  colors: `$`(c: Color): string
  complex: `$`(z: Complex): string
  ...

Proposed Inverse Index:


Color:
  `$`: (c: Color): string
  ...
Complex:
  `$`: (z: Complex): string
  ...

It should be straightforward to generate (group all procedures based on the first argument).

What do you think?

Best regards, David

I threw together a poc implementation of this on Rosetta code a while back, if it's actually useful maybe it's worth making a bit more robust. https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reflection/List_methods#Nim

@shirleyquirk, this is really cool, thanks for the info!

configuring autocomplete in your ide is a better solution, though it'll only show you matching routines from modules you've already imported.

Absolutely, I just configured autocompletion, works good in some cases.

I use the Nim language server together with Neovim's native LSP client


lua << EOF
  require'lspconfig'.nimls.setup{}
EOF

...but as a Nim beginner I definitely need to read the docs :)

Not what you want, but still useful doc https://devdocs.io/nim-complex/

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