On 9/15/2013 5:54 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
> I was rereading Phlip's "what's wrong with our IDEs" post -
> http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/dynamic_languages_vs_editors.html
> - and realised that he's just verbalised something I've only
> half-thought.
>
> When we run our tests (because of course we're using TDD) we know the
> precise types/expected classes of everything, because the VM
> automatically collects (or can collect) this information.
>
> But how do we get that information out of the VM?
>
> frank
>
>

You don't need to extract it from the VM, you can have a type profiler that collects it for you in the image.

Florin