Re: refactoring using parser

Mirko Stocker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.refactoring
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 19 November 2009 00:06:38 Peng Yu wrote:
> 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.

You're right, it's definitely not an easy task. I don't know if there's a 
trend, but with the rate of new languages popping up, tool developers are 
challenged to keep up, especially with dynamic languages that are even harder 
to analyze statically.

You mentioned C++.. our institute is working on the refactoring tools for CDT 
[1] (the Eclipse C++ IDE) and I'm working on refactoring tools for Scala.

Regards

Mirko

[1] http://ifs.hsr.ch/Projects/Projects/C_Refactoring (the page is slightly 
outdated I guess)


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