On Saturday, 25 August 2012 at 20:06:59 UTC, Peter Alexander
wrote:
On Saturday, 25 August 2012 at 19:39:47 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 8/25/2012 6:03 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
Okay, so bitfields are rarely used, but many templates
involve some use of CTFE,
and templates are very common in D code. It's good that D's
parser is fairly
simple to implement (compared to C++ anyway), but to do
automated refactoring
you need simple semantic analysis, and this is something that
D does not have.
How many IDEs can handle the C preprocessor, with token
pasting and all, when refactoring?
Straw man - I didn't suggest that the C preprocessor was any
better. C++ is similarly criticised for its poor IDE support
(when compared with C# and Java) due to the pre-processor and
templates. If you haven't seen the level of support that (for
example) Visual Studio provides for C# then I recommend
checking it out. I imagine the situation with Java and Eclipse
is similar, but I don't have any experience there.
For the record, here is what IntelliJ IDEA (a now free IDE)
offers:
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/refactoring.html
