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by bhhaskin 4251 days ago
I am right there with you. we already have "auto-complete". I am not sure what "auto-correct" would entail. My guess is fixing syntax errors, but i don't see how it could even address logic errors.
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I am curious about how they will define correctness. With many parts in a system, code can look correct in its small unit, but not until it is running in the real world, is it obviously wrong.
Able to identify common methods/algos/calls and correct a programmer's use of them, add in missing checks, remove unnecessary blocks/lines?
A number of IDE's already do this. Eclipse has some nice features that do this.