From: nathaniel@...
Date: 2003-06-24T00:13:56+09:00
Subject: Re: editor / ide recommentation on Windows

Lothar Scholz [mailto:mailinglists@scriptolutions.com] wrote:

> > What would be really sweet is full refactoring Ruby support inside
Eclipse...
> 
> Which is by definition impossible for Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl and
> other languages. All you can get are refactoring suggestions, most of
> them not more comfortable then a good grep result.

Really? Why do you say that? I find it interesting that the first
language for which refactoring was implemented was Smalltalk, which one
could argue is MORE dynamic than any of the languages you mention. So it
seems that a refactoring engine is quite plausible for Ruby (and other
languages like it).

That said, it's certainly not a trivial thing to implement... otherwise
we'd probably already have one :-).


Nathaniel

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