From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2003-08-14T12:37:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Refactoring Browsers (was: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added)

A difference between smalltalk and ruby...smalltalk is image based 
whereas ruby is file based.  The order you load files determines the 
replacement of capability.  This is going to have to be a factor in 
whoever works to build ruby refactoring capability.

BTW:  Although refactoring is important, so is generating code.  That 
could be done quite quickly yet yield nice payoff.

-rich

-rich

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 06:58  PM, Jim Weirich wrote:

> I can see certain refactorings being more difficult in a Duck Typed
> language, e.g. renaming a method (how do you if *this* use of a method
> is one to be changed).
>
> Here's a question to folks that have used both the Smalltalk 
> refactoring
> browser and one of the Java IDEs (e.g. IntelliJ or Eclipse):  In what
> ways did refactoring support differ between the two languages?