Re: Java vs. Objective-C for Cocoa

FROM : Thomas Davie
DATE : Sun Apr 24 12:24:14 2005

>> You seem to think that refactoring is somehow type-dependent
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>> Refactoring has nothing to do with type.  If you rename the method 
>> 'whatever', you just change all senders.
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> The example the others pushed as the advantage over a regexp was 
> "renaming a method aaa of class A, leaving a method aaa of class B 
> intact". That has ***all*** to do with type.
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> Presumed we skip this, there is preciously little added value in 
> smart refactoring as compared with a good regexp search&replace. 
> Which Xcode has.
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Thats because you haven't thought of re-factoring as a useful tool, 
and because of that haven't thought of all the things it could do... 
Could regexp search and replace easily find all occurrences of a 
sequence of statements with different arguments, put them into a 
method, and turn all of the original occurrences into method calls?

Bob