From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-03-29T05:15:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Best (Windows) Ruby editor

Hello Christian,

CN> Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> writes:


CN> And how can Smalltalk tell?

They can't. But method arguments have names there, so the name
of a method is longer and not so overloaded.

The refactoring browser also adds methods under the old name into the
image that simply raise an inspector window and cry for help if
something is going wrong after the refactoring.

And you normally get a lot of warnings from the refactoring browser
with locations where you must look manually to decide if it should
rename a method or not. It's far from being as automated as in Java
IDE's. Its just that many people only read about it but never tried
it.

And remember that Smalltalk does not have all the manipulation you can
do with file loading and class/method setups. This reduces the
complexity of a refactoring browser by one magnitude.


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