Re: Wish list: RPG code refactoring

On 2/15/2013 11:10 AM, David Gibbs wrote:

On 2/14/2013 12:56 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

Rather than curse the darkness, I'm lighting a candle. I really
would like to have the ability to use Eclipse / RDp to refactor;
especially my legacy code. I hope that other RPG programmers agree
and vote for this idea.

Although I like the idea ... I'm not sure it's entirely practical.

Refactoring relies on the fact that all the source code that is being effected is available to be modified by the user.

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Everything you write (including the bits I snipped) is true if we're
talking about refactoring RPG code the same way Java code is refactored.
I'm not asking for a full blown set of Java refactorings. I'm asking
for the thought process to start moving in the direction of providing
RPG programmers with some of the tools that our C++ and Cobol brothers
and sisters have.

I don't want CDT ported to RDp by March, but I think it would be very
cool to see RDp include whatever the simplest refactoring is that they
can provide in the next release.
--buck