Zitat von Adem <[email protected]>:
[...]
While I do remember talking about 'un-with'ing (or, 'de-with'ing), I
am not sure if Anthony did get around implementing it in JCF. This
(admittedly an extreme one, one which I haven't even checked to see
if it compiles) is the kind of stuff I am talking about:
var
Box1: TRect;
Box2: TRect;
begin
With Box1, Box2 do begin
Left := Left;
Top := Top;
Right := MyRight;
Bottom := Bottom;
end;
end;
I'd like something to take care of this sort of stuff; but I am not
sure it has to be the code formatter --a refactoring tool sounds
like a better one for the job definition.
If so, it brings us to the 'refactoring tool'; which --unless I am
mistaken-- there isn't one for FPC/Lazarus/others. If such a thing
doesn't exist, I can only guess it is simply because there isn't the
infrastructure suitably ready for it --how many of us would
undertake writing a fully-fledged parser engine before writing a
refactoring tool (which is hard enough) for non-commercial puposes?
Same goes for code analysis tools etc.
The infrastructure exists. I just didn't know that there is demand for this.
These are the reasons why I am pinning so much hope on modularizing
tokenizer/parser/compiler trio. Once that done, someone else
(singular or plural) --I am hoping-- will step in to write those
tools which in return help developing all sorts of other tools
better and faster.
Mattias
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