Re: EGL to become Eclipse project

[James Perkins <jrperkinsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, AFAIK, there is no refactoring support for RPG. I really wish
there was though.
--
James R. Perkins


On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 07:36, Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Yes, there is a time for a complete rewrite but the expense in throwing
> away the knowledge embedded in the current source is much higher than
> most people think.
>
> Hence, the movement for refactoring in especially the Java world, where
> a refactoring uses well-understood, small steps to transform the source
> into something equivalent but "better".  This keeps the knowledge but
> leaves the source in a better state than you found it.     Most of the
> steps are quite tedious unless you have good tooling support.  Like
> renaming a variable, requires all usages to be found and changed.
> Tedious, but Eclipse can do it for Java.  Can the recent versions of RDi
> (or whatever it is called this week) do the same for RPG?
>
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