Re: Perl Tools For Refactoring.

In article <[email protected]>,
    Adam Sroka <[email protected]>  writes:

> The EPIC plugin for Eclipse has some support.

Interesting!

I tried it out briefly.  It has Extract Method.  Its reasonable,
although it could still use some improvement.  For instance:

sub foo
{
	print "This is a test";
	print "This is another test.";
}

foo;

when Extract Method was applied to the two print lines, I got:

sub foo
{
	my () = test ();
	my () = anotherTest ();
}
sub anotherTest
{
	print "This is another test.";
	return ();
}

sub test
{
	print "This is a test";
	return ();
}

foo;

This produces non-functional perl code:

Can't declare stub in "my" at /tmp/foo.pl line 3, near ") ="
Execution of /tmp/foo.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

It clearly has some more work that's needed on it, but its better
than nothing.  I haven't tried any more complicated experiments where
it is supposed to infer return values and needed parameters to the
sub.  You may find this refactoring suite a useful guide in giving
EPIC's Extract Method a run for its money:

<http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/c-refactoring-tools-test-suite-available/>

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