Copilot response to source code comments

[StevenABrown]

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GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio is a very useful aid to software development. Here is my suggestion to improve it. I noticed that Copilot pays attention to comments I'm writing in the code and makes suggestions for completion of a comment. However, it does not work the other way, in the sense of suggesting code to implement the wording of a comment that begins a new line. This code snippet is an example of what Copilot does.

int a, b;
a = 5;
// Make b equal to the square root of a.
Here Copilot suggests "b = a * a;"

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[StevenABrown]

After I changed the declaration of b from int to float, Copilot did suggest b = sqrt(a);