From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2003-08-14T03:03:51+09:00
Subject: Re: AW: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added

Hello Simon,

Tuesday, August 12, 2003, 10:44:49 PM, you wrote:

SS> also IntelliJ-Idea has many nice features which I hope AEditor will get.
SS> http://www.intellij.com/idea/
SS> examples of its features [ripped from intelliJ's feature list]:
SS> * rename method, The renaming functionality allows you to rename any 
SS>   package, class, method or variable and automatically finds and corrects 
SS>   all references to it.
SS> * Moving classes and packages with reference correction.
SS> * extract method, Select a block of code and invoke Extract Method to 
SS>   turn it into a method. It will automatically analyze the code to 
SS>   detect which variables of the original method must be passed to the 
SS>   extracted method as parameters.
SS> * etc.. 30 refactoring operations ..

SS> If we had an IDE for Ruby with such features... wow.
SS> I will do my best in order to create such refactoring tools for ruby.

Have you ever spend more then a few minutes to think about the
problems with refactoring in script languages and especially with
ruby ?

I guess you didn't.

The fexibility of languages like ruby makes it impossible to ever
write something like intellij. And it is not a parser problem. I can
write a full ruby parser in a weekend, but this would give me no clue
about the behaviour.


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