[plt-scheme] refactoring support in DrScheme

Unfortunately, those do not yet exist. Some of them are not as easy in
Scheme as they would be in Java, since the superclass position of a
class is an expression position (and we exploit this to program with
mixins).

Robby

On 9/29/07, Stephen De Gabrielle <stephen at degabrielle.name> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The recent discussion of the IDE features in DrScheme in the saved window
> configurations and "Projects" threads was good and got me thinking about and
> using the syntax checker and the module browser.
>
> Syntax checker offers a identifier rename facility.
>
> Do any others exist? I am thinking of things like;
> >
> >
> > ExtractMethod -- make a submethod out of the selected text. If there is
> already an equivalent method, optionally invoke that instead.
> > Inline method -- put the invoked code in place of the invocation. This
> even works for methods in other classes.
> > Move to component -- move the code for a method to another class and
> invoke it
> - Kent Beck http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RefactoringBrowser
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Stephen
>
>
> PS it is good to be reminded of simple but incredibly useful things like the
> (define ...) button, Show Program Contour, and split.
>
>
> On 9/28/07, Geoffrey S. Knauth <geoff at knauth.org> wrote:
> > On Sep 27, Robby Findler wrote:
> > > The module browser has "ignore lib paths" option. Maybe it makes
> > > sense to either use that, or to change the module browser to match
> > > whatever seems best. Personally, my experience suggests that
> > > ignoring lib/planet paths and just do all relative requires will
> > > work well. Ie, don't restrict based on dirs.
> >
> > I wouldn't mind seeing all the files I require in a module, so long
> > as there is an equivalent to Emacs's C-x C-q to toggle the read-only
> > state of a tab [buffer].  toggle-read-only helps me not damage code.
> >
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>
> Stephen
>
>
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