From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-08-14T05:27:58+09:00
Subject: Re: AW: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 04:03:51 +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> 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/
[snip]
> SS> * etc.. 30 refactoring operations ..
> 
> 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.

I have thought about it for more than 5 minutes, but not done any deep 
analizis of what it would take. I agree with you that there is problems 
with dynamic-typed languages.

Is there anyone who has done some analizis of what such refactoring-tool 
exactly will require ?   a ruby-in-ruby parser ?

 
> 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.

OK, also I look forward to a ruby-in-ruby parser on next monday :-)

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Simon Strandgaard