Re: [boost] Clang: Open-source C/C++ front end under development

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-02 22:56:38

Andrew Sutton wrote:

> To start with, your definition of refactoring is incorrect - it  
> simply preserves the external behavior of a program. I would also  
> point out that in order to ensure that a program is correct it first  
> has to be preprocessed, and parsed. Something as simple as renaming a  
> function - which is a well-known refactoring - requires none of that.  

Hmm, I wouldn't consider renaming a function a simple transformation, really.
Consider overloading. You have to do full overload resolution (one of the
most complex things in C++) in order to figure out whether a name in a
given function call needs to be changed or not.

Regards,
                Stefan

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