Re: Refactoring wishlist

Mark, I said:

>So here's your challenge: give me the link or admit that you were
>giving an overzealous sales pitch. I'd like nothing better than for
>you to lay me out on this one and have your product win the day, but
>I don't think you can.

But you did. I had thought that there would be many cases where I would want to apply each of my refactorings separately, but I worried that I was introducing too many refactorings for a programmer to find them when needed. After seeing what you've done, I agree that "Simplify Expression" was the right way to go.

And I can't believe your response time on adding "Reverse Boolean".

You have knocked me out. I am down for the count. 

(And now I'm done with trite boxing metaphores. Next we're going to shoot for the moon.)

George


--- In [email protected], "Mark Miller" <markm@...> wrote:
>
> OK, just added Reverse Boolean (thanks George, for encouraging this). Here's
> your screenshot of the refactoring's preview hinting:
> 
>  
> 
> http://a.yfrog.com/img859/5843/r5a.png
> 
>  
> 
> CodeRush customers: I'll get the source to this plug-in up on the community
> plug-in site in 24 hours.
> 
>  
> 
> - Mark Miller
> 
>   DevExpress
> 
>   C# MVP
> 
>   @MillerMark
> 
>  
> 
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Mark Miller
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 2:33 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [refactoring] Re: Refactoring wishlist
> 
>  
> 
>   
> 
> Hi George,
> 
> I was just re-reading through your list, and somehow I missed #7 on the
> first read - reverse the sense of a Boolean variable. CodeRush does NOT have
> this yet, although it's something we've been talking about implementing for
> a while. It's a great suggestion. 
> 
> - Mark Miller
> DevExpress
> C# MVP
> @MillerMark
> 
> From: [email protected] <mailto:refactoring%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:refactoring%40yahoogroups.com> ]
> On
> Behalf Of Mark Miller
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:11 PM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:refactoring%40yahoogroups.com> 
> Subject: RE: [refactoring] Re: Refactoring wishlist
> 
>   
> Hi George,
> 
> Ø So here's your challenge: give me the link or admit that you were giving
> an overzealous sales pitch.
> 
> We wrapped up "Apply DeMorgan's Law" inside a refactoring called "Simplify
> Expression". We did this to make it more accessible to users who had never
> heard of DeMorgan. 
> 
> We also added logic to find redundancy and simplify math operations that
> went beyond considerations of DeMorgan, Quine, and McCluskey. For example,
> we can simplify this:
> 
> if (!(a < 5 || a == 5))
> 
> {
> 
> // …
> 
> }
> 
> Into this:
> 
> if (a > 5)
> 
> {
> 
> // …
> 
> }
> 
> It's a simple example, but CodeRush can simplify any level of complexity in
> an expression.
> 
> CodeRush is still the only refactoring tool I'm aware of with this
> refactoring. Simplify Expression has been in the product for five years.
> 
> Here's the link to the documentation:
> 
> http://documentation.devexpress.com/#CodeRushXpress/CustomDocument5851
> 
> Here's a link to a screenshot I just took with your example code and
> CodeRush's simplification. CodeRush's preview hinting shows the change that
> will take place to the code before you apply the refactoring.
> 
> http://a.yfrog.com/img739/2884/gvlf.png
> 
> Also, George, I would challenge you to come up with more challenges for
> CodeRush. 
> 
> We're ready to impress you. J
> 
> - Mark Miller
> 
> DevExpress
> 
> C# MVP
> 
> @MillerMark
> 

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