Re: refactoring using parser

C#. Resharper.

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Peng Yu <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:20 PM, John Roth <[email protected]<JohnRoth1%40gmail.com>>
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> > Peng Yu wrote:
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> > > I feel that in order to do more rigorous refactoring the refactoring
> > > tools are better able to parse the source file. For example, I want to
> > > change a class name. The simplest solution is to do a string
> > > replacement, but this might accidentally change some variables with
> > > the same name.
> > >
> > > The ultimate solution is to figure which are the class names in the
> > > source code by parsing the source code, then do the replacements.
> > >
> > > But the problem is that it is not easy to write a parse for any
> > > full-blown languages (e.g. C++). It is also might take a lot of effort
> > > to understand existing compiler to add refactoring functionality.
> > >
> > > I'm wondering what is the current trend in solving the
> > > problem that I mentioned above.
> > >
> > > _,_._,___
> > I'm not entirely sure what you mean. If by "any full-blown language"
> > you mean "any language that's suitable for professional programming,"
> > there are lots of such languages with simpler syntax and which have
> > much better refactoring engines as a consequence.
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> I mean "any language that's suitable for professional programming",
> for example, C++, python, perl, R. Would you please let me know what
> languages have better refactoring engines?
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> > If, however, you're using that phrase to avoid saying that C++ is the
> > only language you're concerned with, then I suspect that the eventual
> > fix will be to quit using C++, as well as other languages whose
> complexity
> > baffles automated quality tools.
> >
> > John Roth
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