From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-08-14T03:33:50+09:00
Subject: Re: AW: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added

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From: "Lothar Scholz" <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>;
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Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: AW: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added


> 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.

Well, there are certainly problems with automatic
refactoring in dynamic languages.

But I think it is not pointless to try to write
refactoring tools. They are potentially of much
usefulness, even though they will always be
imperfect.

Hal

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